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November 2024

Open up a modern edition of Shakespeare’s Pericles to the chorus at the start of act 3, and you’ll find the narrator Gower alone on stage, standing (as…

Nov 15 •

October 2024

In about 2004, I moved from London to Houston, Texas.

Oct 19 •

September 2024

Boxes! I’ve been opening lots of boxes recently, and finding surprising things inside.

Sep 26 •

August 2024

Photograph of a picnic

I love photographs and this is one of my favourites (it’s a digital scan of an old-fashioned print).

Aug 20 •

July 2024

The Book-Makers - out and about

Jul 24 •

June 2024

The image above is the Korean artist Do Ho Suh’s haptic memory of the bathroom of the apartment he lived in for 18 years (but no longer lives in) on…

Jun 13 •

May 2024

‘The magic of the photocopier’

My book, The Book-Makers, (which is a book about books — published in book-form) is out in America in 11 days.

May 17 •

March 2024

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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