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
- double-checking the spelling of 'pinkie' and this list of horrible words came up https://t.co/iaLMXuFuYB 13 hours ago
- 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… 1 day 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… 3 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… 4 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… 1 week ago
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Tag Archives: mental health
On holding one’s head
Some use an egg shape; others a cube or block. Some even start with one feature and start building the form out around it until the whole head is encompassed. However, all these involve many chances for error. Only the … Continue reading
I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind
My old robe was one with the other rags that surrounded me. Diderot, ‘Regrets for my Old Dressing Gown’ (1779) It’s Mental Health Awareness Week in New Zealand. I would like to extend my gratitude to dressing gowns. To dressing … Continue reading
