Georgia on my mind The other day I received an email from a friend currently teaching English in Georgia (the country in Eurasia rather th...

Today is National Poetry Day in Aotearoa / New Zealand. There are plenty of events on in towns around the country , but for those of you loo...

'...the story of love fulfilled is no story at all; it’s in the gap between longing and completion that the narrative appears' -- Pe...

Playlist for the week just been... Nothing Ever Happens - Del Amitri Nothing To Say - The Kinks Nothing - Nada Surf (bonus points) N...

The title of today’s post is a line from ‘Somewhere Else’ by Grace Paley. The rest of this post is stuff I’ve been up to over the last week ...

A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan This was a book I have been meaning to read for the last twelve months, ever since it starte...

Babel Building Blocks The writer Isaac Babel is said to have asked women he met if he might rifle through their purses to inspect their con...

Advice to Listeners [ Cynthia Ozick on Steven Millhauser’s ‘In The Reign of Harad IV’ , here ] They should be thinking about art, all art...