I had planned to keep this a secret, partly through laziness, partly because I have no idea where it's going: I'm using another blog for some fun with fiction. You see I've written a fun book called Mrs Palin Reads...
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Judging 11 books by their covers
I'm off on a week's holiday, so don't expect a blog entry next week. Instead let's consider the proposition that we do judge a book by its cover -- whether we should or not. After all, that's exactly what people...
Spare the fairies
The Girls' Book of Flower Fairies. Cicely Mary Barker. Copyright Frederick Warne. Publisher: Penguin. Figure that out. I was instantly infatuated with Cicely Mary Barker's illustrations of the flower fairies — all 120 of them, from the Acorn Fairy to...
How is the internet changing literary style?
How is the Internet changing literary style? asks Caleb Crain on Steamboats are ruining everything. It's a leisurely, literary, philosophical talk transcribed. So why would I ruin everything by paraphrasing? I'll just quote a bit. Crain writes a lot for...
Writers rooms are not tidy
The writing rooms of famous writers: see them on the Guardian web site. Bother Miriam Richardson for telling me about this page: it is fascinating. So this writer has just wasted an hour looking and reading about where other writers...