Ten years ago today, I sat up in bed with a cup of tea and the laptop, messing around with WordPress. In…
writing about writing
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There could be many potential answers to the question, ‘What is Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook about?’ Almost like a literary Rorschach…
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Really enjoyed this short story by Fernando Sdrigotti called Jolts, as published by 3am Magazine in September. 8:57 a.m., December 12, 2014…
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While the buildings, gardens and artefacts of the pre-industrial world and land-owning classes are studiously preserved, there remains a cavalier attitude to…
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I wonder if every writer gets to this page in Anne Lamott’s bird by bird: And then looks over one shoulder and…
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How much is too much to spend on a book? As with so much in life, George Orwell has already considered and…
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This week my eye was caught by an informative and amusing interview in the Paris Review with Geoff Dyer, ‘The Art of…
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If they say the best books are like a conversation with the author, then ‘That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick – The National…
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If I was a king, I would have a chair purposefully crafted out of volumes of books. Books that I have read…
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I like to read and write in bed. A comfortable mattress can at times be equally as productive as a sturdy desk.…