Blogroll
- A book you might like This is a book you or someone you know might like.
- Bat, Bean, Beam Everyone links to Giovanni Tiso’s blog but I don’t care. It’s too good.
- Elliot Scribblings Londoner Elliot Elam sketches people on public transport.
- Five Dials Five Dials is free online magazine edited by Craig Taylor, who seems to be a genius. In Five Dials no. 32 you can read a piece I wrote about Katherine Mansfield’s birthplace.
- Isinglass Martin Edmond’s wonderful blog.
- Let Me Be Frank Sarah Laing’s compulsively readable cartoony blog on reading, writing, parenting, angsting.
- Oliver Burkeman My favourite writer on self-help. He really hates “The Secret”.
- The Animalarium This blog gladdens the heart. Celebrates animals (worldly and otherworldly) in illustration and design.
- The London Review of Breakfasts Dinner parties are mere formalities; but you invite a man to breakfast because you want to see him. (On the LRB, I have reviewed as Egg Miliband.)
- The Subversive Copyeditor Carol Fisher Saller is my editing hero.
- The VUP blog I work as an editor at Victoria University Press, and this is our blog.
- Twitter Poetry Night I ran a project where you could listen to people on Twitter reading poems.
I’m on Twitter sometimes
- RT @i_zzzzzz: Whenever I read a paragraph like this I think about how I never want the New Yorker to write a profile on me https://t.co/ahm… 2 hours ago
- A thing I wish I could shake is, when I am cleaning I imagine that I'm on one of those hidden cam shows that were b… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 days ago
- I wrote about writing a book (paywalled, but non-subscribers can still enjoy this photo of Andre Agassi) nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/a… 3 days ago
- Whenever I have to get down or put away a copy of Bill Manhire’s Collected Poems from the top shelf at work I alway… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
- RT @TheSpinoffTV: The Friday Poem: 'Alien' by @runawayfardowsa thespinoff.co.nz/books/07-06-20… 1 week ago
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Category Archives: Memory
On carrying a notebook around
A recent attempt at “carrying a notebook around” Carrying a pocket notebook everywhere with me is my favorite hobby. – Person on annoying blog about being a better writer Take Care of Your Little Notebook Charles Simic, New York Times … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Working
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A scattering
‘Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.’ Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s by … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Memory
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Death and the memory box
Wasted Rita “I have the cornflower I wore in my buttonhole to the first evening out with my first serious girlfriend in 1977 …” – Commenter on ‘Should memory boxes be given the boot?’ by Oliver Burkeman “The Museum comprises a … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Uncategorized
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