being and becoming in the world
I do not do book reviews – instead I like to share fragments. Shuggie Bain is a harrowing read and reveals most starkly how we become part of the world … Continue reading ‘and danced farther and farther from home’
Letters, handwritten and sent by post: a way of communicating that has become more of the past than the present. The intimacy of a letter – as shared between friends. … Continue reading A friendship in letters
Extracts from the Scotsman review of ‘A swim in a pond in the rain’ by George Saunders: This is a film about a house that was called ‘Rockville’. It was … Continue reading ‘The reality of editing’
This poem, featured in yesterday’s newspaper. On first reading, I cried.
Presently, I am reading the letters written by, and exchanged between, Robert Louis Stevenson and J. M. Barrie. In life they never met. Gosh, I would have loved to have … Continue reading A friendship in letters
This morning I listened to an interview with George Saunders on Radio 4. I was fascinated by what he had to say. So much so that I have transcribed the … Continue reading An interview with George Saunders
Richard Holloway in ‘Stories We Tell Ourselves’:
In ‘Stories We Tell Ourselves’ Richard Holloway suggests why it is important to ‘remember Auden again’.