Highgate is New Rowling Twitter Header

 

Rowling switched out her Twitter page ‘header’ this morning with a shot from Highgate Cemetery. For a history of her Twitter headers and the relationship with the work we learned later she was writing, see Nick Jeffery’s comprehensive posts on those subjects, All J. K. Rowling’s Twitter Headers and The Rowling Headers – in Context. For thoughts about the April header just replaced, read about it at New Rowling Forest Twitter Header: Beasts 4, Strike 7, or Project X?

Oxford’s Beatrice Groves, author of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter, wrote about Highgate Cemetery most recently in her post, The King of Beasts: Fantastic Beasts and the Beast Within, and will share her thoughts here tomorrow on this new picture, to include ideas about what it suggests about Rowling’s current project. Stay tuned!

Rowling Tweets Eurovision Commentary; Says She Has Six Books in the Works

I couldn’t care less about her preferences for Eurovision, if it was fun to learn her husband Neil is accomplished on both the violin and keyboard (The Presence plays guitar). The keepers of these twenty-seven tweets? The two about the six works in progress and her revelation that the Loser’s Lair in Christmas Pig was inspired by a glimpse down a smoking fjord in Iceland:

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Rowling Support Animal Choice About Stonewall Trial, Support of Gay Friend

In yesterday’s post about Rowling’s tweet in answer to a question about what her “support animal of choice” would be, I wrote at some length about the Ukraine flag and Ukrainian Ironbelly featured in her response. I don’t want to take back anything I said there, but I rush to add that I missed the most important background piece to this tweet, namely, “Why are people in the UK suddenly talking about preferences with respect to support animals?” The answer, not too surprisingly, is pretty much off the radar in the United States but very much part of Rowling’s commitment to support her lesbian friends in their resistance to transgender activists. [Read more…]

Rowling Tweets Ukrainian Ironbelly as Her Support Animal Choice (with Flag)

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Rowling Tweets Support for Abortion and Gay Marriage In Response to Challenge

Three quick thoughts after the jump! [Read more…]