andy-mcgrath.bsky.social
Freelance sports journalist and award-winning author, writing biographies about Tom Simpson and Frank Vandenbroucke. Formerly editor of Rouleur. Tadej Pogacar: Unstoppable biography, out now! 📕
👤 Joined on 13 November 2024
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@andy-mcgrath.bsky.socialJack London was a real one. By 17, he had worked in a cannery, been an oyster pirate, sailed to Japan, and spent time in prison for vagrancy after tramping across America. He went back to high school & got into Berkeley, but had to drop out because he was broke. THEN he joined the Alaska Gold Rush.
Show PostThere's scarcely been a day's writing when I've not had cause to recall my favourite ever quote from an author about their own work, from a Paris Review interview with John Banville in 2009.
Show Post🇺🇸 Jorgenson on the recent UCI Worlds 🗣️ “I hesitate to say it because I want more time to reflect on it, but I think it might be the race I’m most proud of, just because I feel like I had a big role in planning it," INTERVIEW 📰 domestiquecycling.com/en/news/a-lo... 📸 Cor Vos
Show PostHaving a really rough time because of being out of work, and I don’t know how to describe it to anyone who’s not experienced it but in short it really sucks.
Show PostWorking ‘in town’ so walked to Kings Cross. Route took me past the British Museum, through Russell Square Gardens, past the Brunswick, past the British Library. Do that on the right sort of evening/morning and you’d be forgiven for thinking there wasn’t much wrong with London/Britain/the world.
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