Macrolog: Reading & Writing
So Many Books... Wed 15 Mar 2006 | 7 Comments
Markham's new blog won't accept my comment on his recent post about books and the bloggers who love them, so I've posted it here instead...
The World at Our Bidding Mon 27 Jun 2005 | 1 Comments
If I might have your attention for a moment, I’ve written a feature for the wonderfully eclectic Sigla magazine. It’s all about eBay, which this year is celebrating both its...
The War on Words Wed 10 Nov 2004
Philip Pullman writes in last weekend’s Guardian Review on the fate of literature as democratic activity in an increasingly didactic, theocratic world: The democracy of reading exists in the to-and-fro...
André Brink in Profile Fri 20 Aug 2004 | 2 Comments
Last weekend’s Guardian Review has a revealing profile on renowned Afrikaans author André Brink, who “since 1994 and the first democratic elections … has tried to write the kind of...
Bloomsday Notes Wed 16 Jun 2004
So today was the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, the day on which the events of James Joyce’s Ulysses take place. And it completely passed me by, as I had other,...
Page 23, Sentence 5 Sat 01 May 2004
“She was shocked and said, ‘What can I do to kill him?’” [from The Child with a Moon on his Chest by SM Guma, as featured in The New Century...
To Write, Perchance to Work Tue 09 Mar 2004 | 3 Comments
Reading a piece by Kelly Caldwell on weblogs and writing from some months ago, the following paragraph drew my attention: I think there is a reason why established, professional writers...
Jimmy Joyce Ha Ha Ha Tue 10 Feb 2004 | 3 Comments
Roddy Doyle (who wouldn’t have become a writer if it weren’t for my old primary school principal Noel Kennedy) has courted controversy for his alleged confession at a birthday celebration...
Hot Sauce Tue 20 Jan 2004
My second contribution to Omnivore is now online, entitled Hot Sauce; a cautionary tale regarding the perils of condiment overconsumption. I hope that you might find it quite galvanic. As...
Ulysses Update #3 Wed 24 Dec 2003
About an hour ago (and a week before the deadline, too) I completed my personal challenge; I can now hold my head high with pride and declare with the greatest...
Ulysses Update #2 Mon 15 Dec 2003
Fifteen days in now, and I’m at page 414. The going was great till about page 365, when the text suddenly morphed into early modern English, but I managed to...
Ulysses Update #1 Tue 09 Dec 2003
Nine days into the Ulysses challenge, and my bookmark rests at page 248. And you know what? I’m actually quite enjoying it. It’s not nearly as difficult to read as...
Ulysses Tue 02 Dec 2003 | 4 Comments
December is at last upon us. And to mark the occasion (amongst all those other important, life-fulfilling duties I must force myself to perform) I have given myself a challenge...
Pancakes of the World Mon 10 Nov 2003 | 5 Comments
My first contribution to Omnivore, entitled Pancakes of the World, is now online for your reading pleasure. Please try to ignore the handful of spelling mistakes and poor choices of...
You Shall Know Our Velocity (Abridged) Sat 22 Feb 2003 | 6 Comments
Don't have the time to read Dave Eggers' latest book, or simply can't (or can't be bothered to) get your hands on a copy? Not to worry - read the...
Reading and Writing Mon 13 Jan 2003
Today I read 130+ pages of Stupid White Men', finishing the book. I also perused the first two issues of Careless Talk Costs Lives which arrived in the post...
Iain Banks Mon 26 Aug 2002
I've always thought that Iain Banks lives a wonderful life. I remember some years ago, I was off sick from school and - as per usual whenever I was...
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