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Pericles-cutting
I’ve been editing the play Pericles – that sprawling romance of families scattered and the rejoined, written by William Shakespeare and (almost…
Mar 8
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Adam Smyth
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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…
Mar 1
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February 2024
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…
Feb 7
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Adam Smyth
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January 2024
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…
Jan 23
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Adam Smyth
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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…
Jan 11
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Adam Smyth
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December 2023
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…
Dec 3, 2023
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Adam Smyth
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November 2023
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…
Nov 2, 2023
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Adam Smyth
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September 2023
Re-using woodblocks
It’s quite often the case in early printed books that the same images reappear in different scenes, within books, and across different books. Woodblocks…
Sep 18, 2023
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Adam Smyth
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August 2023
Church Pew Graffiti
I went camping in Norfolk last week and between the campfires and the swimming I visited St Nicholas Church, Salthouse, where many of the pews have…
Aug 17, 2023
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Adam Smyth
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July 2023
Francis Douce’s resignation letter
Francis Douce (1757-1834) was the Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum. He bequeathed more than 19,000 printed books to the Bodleian Library in…
Jul 23, 2023
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Adam Smyth
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A Multitude of New “Allans”
Among the many works of Barbara Rosenthal – an American avant-garde artist, writer and performer (b. 1948) who sometimes goes by the name of Homo…
Jul 8, 2023
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Adam Smyth
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May 2023
Nico's self-reflexive book
I bought a copy of Andy Warhol’s silver-covered Index on a recent Significant Birthday for about the same price as my car’s last M.O.T. The book, which…
May 25, 2023
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