Of a Book, and its (Spoiler!) Cover
A couple of weeks back I finished reading A Void, which is Gilbert Adair’s translation of Georges Perec’s original French La Disparition. The defining feature of this book, the reason I picked it out...
View ArticlePlease Welcome… Emmie Mears and The Masked Songbird!
Gentle readers, I’m pleased as punch to present – making a generous stopover at this backwater blog during the tour for the release of her debut novel The Masked Songbird – someone whose acquaintance...
View ArticleThe Versatile Blogger Award!
Try to picture me now, six foot three inches of hangdog pout, twisting the toes of one foot back and forth on the floor in shame at having let something sit for far too long. A month or so back I was...
View ArticleWhy I Write
Tag! I’m it! So there is something called a “blog hop” going on amidst my little community of fellow Internet scribes in which each of us is tasked in turn to devote a few paragraphs to what drives...
View ArticleThe Pact – A Short Story Collaboration (Compiled Post)
Originally posted on Nillu Nasser Stelter:You’ll find the combined three parts of our short story collaboration ‘The Pact’ below, based on the Surrealist game Exquisite Corpse. Thanks, first and...
View ArticleIn Conversation with… Emmie Mears!
It’s my privilege today to welcome back for a chat the fan-dab-tabulous author Emmie Mears, whom you may recall (that is, if you don’t follow her and her works already, double-finger-wag shame on you)...
View Article2014: The Year That Was and Will Never Be Again
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Witnesseth henceforth the spoils: Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people....
View ArticleA Recipe for Making Sausages
That title probably sounds a little too innuendo-ish for your liking (and even now I’m regretting the potential algorithmic implications), but rest assured that the discussion to follow is SFW to the...
View ArticleAnxiety vs. Creativity
Over the holidays, I read I Am Brian Wilson, the erstwhile Beach Boy’s second memoir (after the first, written under the heavy influence of his therapist/Svengali Dr. Eugene Landy, Wilson eventually...
View ArticleBe a Voice, Not the Noise
So, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted… It’s a weird feeling doing this again after over a year away. It took a tremendous lurch forward from a rather apathetic lull to even dare to...
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