White Lightning
As tempting as it is to raise a glass of industrial-strength booze in George Jones’ memory, I’ll probably be raising something slightly weaker in his memory tonight. Read the rest of this entry »
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Putting off what could be done tomorrow, today
Category: not sport
Video | April 25, 2013
Coffee Bar
A brilliant little film. I wish today’s coffee bars (both chains and those hip, new independents) were more like these places.
April 18, 2013
Towards Tescopolis
There was an interesting article on the Guardian website the other day from one of the judges of the Granta list of best British novelists under 40. Now, as this list is collated every ten years and I’m now in my thirties, unfortunately I will never be a Great Young Novelist as decreed by Granta. We shall overlook the fact that I haven’t written a novel, or anything approaching one, and probably never will, and perhaps focus for a moment on yet another sign of me slowly getting old. I was just about willing to accept that I was never going to be a professional footballer, but I figured being an acclaimed novelist was less time-dependant. Little did I know. I guess I better aim for a Nobel now. Anyway, back to that article… Read the rest of this entry »
April 10, 2013
Bad versions of great writing
As one of those (annoying) people who seems to prefer reading about writing to actual writing (1) I found myself reading this rather exhaustive essay about the writer and editor Gordon Lish. The author collates examples of Lish’s recommendations, thoughts and teachings on how to write, organising them into a coherent methodology for writing Lish-style.
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