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Boxes! I’ve been opening lots of boxes recently, and finding surprising things inside.
Sep 26
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Adam Smyth
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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
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Adam Smyth
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July 2024
The Book-Makers - out and about
Hello Readers!
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.
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!
Mar 1
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Adam Smyth
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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.
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.
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.
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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