“This is to be a sort of diary or book of notes. When I have finished filling these pages, I shall burn them. But if […]
Every day I work on the edit of my book. I slog away, shifting chunks of material and moving them back, eating my salad in […]
#Piranesi is strange and utterly compelling. If the author is able to deliver on the potential of the brilliant first 1/3 of the novel she will truly be a ‘magician’. audible.com.au/pd?as… pic.twitter.com/1luZ…
Lot of stuff about Blair that I have never read before, as a…
An interesting article Darcy. While rue Cardinal Lemoine is…
Brilliant post Darcy. It is so true that students need a lib…
Thanks Richard. I checked out your blog and particularly enj…
A fantastic post, for sure. I have also read every word Orwe…
“Actually, most of my previous publications listed in ‘Their Brilliant Careers’ are made up! It’s all part of the joke. The only real one is ‘The Weight of a Human […]
“The Struggle to see things as they are is perhaps the fundamental driver of Western civilisation. There is a long direct line from Aristotle and Archimedes to Locke, Hume, Mill, […]
There’s been a good variety of books completed this month including graphic novels, historical fiction, essays, memoirs, biographies, contemporary fiction, revolutionary pamphlets and plenty of history. Christopher Hitchens and Thomas […]
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I want to show you our world as it is now: the door, the floor, the water tap and the sink, the garden chair close […]