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The Book-Makers - out and about
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Jul 24
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Adam Smyth
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June 2024
America
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
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Adam Smyth
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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. The cover is different (more…
May 17
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Adam Smyth
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March 2024
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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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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