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
- please stop replying to the bush tweet https://t.co/A7xDFlYuqQ 4 days ago
- Sometimes NZ writers say 'the forest' instead of 'the bush' (and they definitely mean 'the bush') because they are… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
- I’ve recently learned that in another part of the neighbourhood Jerry is known as Original Chonk (The Chonky King).… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
- RT @MerriamWebster: The nonbinary pronoun 'they' has been added to the dictionary. merriam-webster.com/dictionary/they 5 days ago
- Very nearly ended a poetry book blurb with the words '... and show us what it is to be human' and caught myself just in time 6 days ago
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Faces and nonface faces
‘The cost of missing a face is higher than the cost of declaring a nonface to be a face.’ Dr. Sinha of M.I.T., quoted in ‘Faces, Faces, Everywhere’ (NYT) I had this idea for trying to write a blog post … Continue reading
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