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 @modernletters: ‘A compelling, brilliantly original novel about life in the era of surveillance capitalism, when society prefers not to… 1 hour ago
- RT @VUPBooks: We are delighted to announce this brilliant new novel by @PipAdam - being published in June. Cover art by Russell Kleyn. http… 6 hours ago
- Pip's new novel kind of still has me speechless. She is too good to us twitter.com/FergusVUP/stat… 6 hours ago
- I have a gym etiquette q. Someone was taking loudly for ages on the phone at the gym. Then they started doing lunge… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 days ago
- I wrote about drivers and cyclists again. Sorry. (Paywalled, but non-subscribers can enjoy not reading it) nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news… 3 days ago
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On working, writing, and doubting
I wrote this speech for an event at the Michael King Writers Centre in November. The event was called ‘The Business of Writing: Making a Living Through Words’. I was super scared to say my speech, partly because it was … Continue reading
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The winning Jerry poems
It has been extremely difficult to choose the winners of this giveaway competition. It was so difficult that I’ve decided to give up further book vouchers so that I could award further prizes. It’s book voucher season! Unfortunately Jerry was … Continue reading
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The ‘too many books in the world’ giveaway
I’ve never done a ‘giveaway’ before, partly because it seems like only proper bloggers do giveaways, and partly because I don’t normally have things to give away, but because this year I have been paid for a few bits and … Continue reading
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Your soul is confirmed
Before I set off from the States this morning I was feeling like one last American-ish experience so I decided to do SoulCycle, a spinning class that combines motivational yelling with intense – I would say dangerously intense, at times … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017 New Zealand election, bullshit, Eileen Myles, Gemma Gracewood, Jeremy Sigler, Knausgaard, SoulCycle, Windham-Campbell
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Octopus v.2
I’m over in the States for the Windham-Campbell festival at Yale (Knausgaard!) and the Brooklyn Book Festival (Philip Lopate! Elif Batuman! Ann Powers! (whose Good Booty I’ve just started reading, on Fergus B’s recommendation, and it’s GREAT)). I’m here a few … Continue reading
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Octopus
it’s like genitals I want to show you all these tiny parts but I’m public public public (from a poem called ‘Rewriting’ by Eileen Myles, in Sorry, Tree (2007) I was walking to work the other day in heavy rain. … Continue reading
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Let the eagles go
A thing that drives me disproportionately crazy is the ‘bald eagle screaming’ sound effect in pop songs. I don’t know what is going on with this screaming eagle, and why people keep sampling it, but I’m sure I’ve been hearing … Continue reading
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