Thinking Women Sometimes you think things are not so bad really, and then you see a statistic like this and it just makes you really angry: Women perform 66% of…
Thinking Monday morning inspiration Remember you don’t know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich…
Reading “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino I thought I would have liked this more than I did. I like most of Calvino’s books, and in this one the…
Reading “So Long, See You Tomorrow” by William Maxwell I love Harvill Press. Normally I don’t pay a lot of attention to the publishers, because I find most of them produce…
Literary events Luke Bitmead Writer’s Bursary 2010 My publisher, Legend Press, just announced that submissions are open for the 2010 Luke Bitmead Writer’s Bursary. This is the contest that…
Thinking Monday morning inspiration Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome. David Hare The Guardian, Feb 2010
Thinking Progress in Microsoft world In most areas of technology, things have changed quite significantly since the year 2000. Look at the latest iPod next to an…
Reading “t zero” by Italo Calvino This is a bit of a strange mix of stories. Some are narrated by Qfwfq, who tells in first person stories of…
Reading “Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida” Part 5 The final part in my journey through Russian literature. For the original post in the series, please click here. Varlam Shalamov Here…