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literature, archives, material texts, culture, with varying degrees of first personness
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Adam Smyth
Pericles-cutting
I’ve been editing the play Pericles – that sprawling romance of families scattered and the rejoined, written by William Shakespeare and (almost…
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The Book-Makers!
I have a book coming out next month! It’s called The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives. It’s published by Bodley Head in the UK…
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Getting Names Wrong
I often have difficulty in remembering people’s names – to a weird degree – and I wonder if it’s my subconscious enacting revenge for the fact that my…
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Here begins the book called This Is Not A Novel
A few years’ ago, I asked for David Markson’s This Is Not A Novel for my birthday. My wife bought me This Is Not A Novel by Jennifer Johnston. David…
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Reading several things at once
We may think of reading as our solitary immersement in a single book, but that’s not really what happens. We read while we are doing other things – our…
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Literature and failure - audio!
Some time ago I co-hosted a weekly radio programme called LitBits with my friend, the literary journalist James Kidd. Lit Bits aired on Resonance FM (a…
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Scraps of paper
I had to take a lock off a door last week and underneath I found 3 layers of paper, serving as a support, cut from a postcard sent and received some…
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TEXT!
literature, archives, material texts, culture, with varying degrees of 1st personness
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