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Month: June 2012

  • Literary events

Sophie Blackall at the Brooklyn Public Library

Like any nosy New Yorker, I first encountered Sophie Blackall on the subway. I most often ride the F line, and found myself pleasantly…
29 June 2012
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  • Reading

Why reading is social rather than solitary

Although reading is termed solitary, some of my best times on holiday have been when we've been sitting beside each other, each…
25 June 2012
  • The writing process

The worst job in the world

When Barack Obama was elected US President in 2008 “The Onion” ran the headline “black man given nation’s worst job”. Much as…
19 June 2012
  • Reading

The reflection of read things

The enthralling The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997) is what I’ll be musing about. I read the novel earlier…
14 June 2012
  • Living

No internet. No phone. One month.

OK, I’m off! Bags are packed, tickets printed, taxi is booked for four thirty tomorrow morning, and several alarms have been set.…
10 June 2012
  • Reading

The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul

The book begins with a murder. Soon detectives are on the scene, and the victim’s life is being unravelled piece by piece, revealing a…
8 June 2012
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  • Thinking

Achieve happiness, in three easy steps?

I was in an American-style steak house here in Barbados a few weeks ago, trying to write but being distracted instead by…
4 June 2012

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