writing about writing

Ten years ago today, I sat up in bed with a cup of tea and the laptop, messing around with WordPress. In…

There could be many potential answers to the question, ‘What is Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook about?’ Almost like a literary Rorschach…

Really enjoyed this short story by Fernando Sdrigotti called Jolts, as published by 3am Magazine in September. 8:57 a.m., December 12, 2014…

While the buildings, gardens and artefacts of the pre-industrial world and land-owning classes are studiously preserved, there remains a cavalier attitude to…

I wonder if every writer gets to this page in Anne Lamott’s bird by bird: And then looks over one shoulder and…

How much is too much to spend on a book? As with so much in life, George Orwell has already considered and…

This week my eye was caught by an informative and amusing interview in the Paris Review with Geoff Dyer, ‘The Art of…

If they say the best books are like a conversation with the author, then ‘That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick – The National…

If I was a king, I would have a chair purposefully crafted out of volumes of books. Books that I have read…

I like to read and write in bed. A comfortable mattress can at times be equally as productive as a sturdy desk.…