Luke Bitmead Award 2009
I was happy to see a call for entries for the Luke Bitmead Writers’ Bursary 2009. Luke wrote an excellent book, White Summer, in 2006, but died only…
Monday Morning Inspiration #5
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never…
“If on a winter’s night a traveler” by Italo Calvino
Reviewing this book in the New Yorker, John Updike said that it “manages to charm and entertain the reader in the teeth…
Monday Morning Inspiration #4
If you realise that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren’t afraid of…
“Life of Pi” by Yann Martel
I’ve heard good things about this book for ages, ever since it won the Booker Prize back in 2002, but for some…
New York, New York
I had a wonderful trip to New York. The book-related reasons to go were to sign copies at the Columbia Alumni Book Fair and to give a speech…
Monday Morning Inspiration #3
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. — Dalai Lama Please share…
Wislawa Szymborska
Just discovered the work of Wislawa Szymborska through a poem reprinted in an old edition of New Internationalist from last year. It…
Monday Morning Inspiration #2
Good prose is like a windowpane. — George Orwell, “Why I Write” To find out what this is all about and how…