Travel The pull of the road Back in the year 2000, Genie and I took our first trip together. We were living in New York City at the time, and we…
Reading Completism Can you recommend a good book by an author whose surname begins with Q, U, X or Y? It’s a strange question,…
Reading Review: The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma The self-fulfilling prophecy is an ancient and fascinating component of literature. From Oedipus to Macbeth and beyond, characters have wrestled with disturbing…
Travel In a desert state of mind We’re now more than a month into our trip around Morocco, and I have lots of things I want to say about…
Travel Living on the road People have been asking me where I am living these days, so here’s an update. In early 2015, Genie and I started…
Thinking The Things I Care About What do you really care about? I asked myself that question recently, and I was surprised by the results. Firstly, it seems that I care…
Reading Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika I read this book back in the spring, before it got shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and got a fair bit of attention.…
The writing process A Story From a “What If?” Moment One evening in Crete, a couple of years ago, I saw something that made a lasting impression on me. A small boy, maybe…
Reading Q&A With Dodge and Burn Author Seraphina Madsen Recently I read and reviewed Dodge and Burn, a startling and very original debut novel by Seraphina Madsen. I had the chance to…