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Categories (filing cabinets; book shelves)
On my way to the reading room in the National Archives in Kew, I see a set of filing cabinets that carry headings of implausible exactness.
Dec 17
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Adam Smyth
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Categories (filing cabinets; book shelves)
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Diaries: 1922-1959
From an auction house in Nottingham, I buy a series of 18 diaries running across the early to mid-20th century, kept by a man called Samuel who lived in…
Dec 3
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Adam Smyth
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November 2024
The Irony Shed
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
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Adam Smyth
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The Irony Shed
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October 2024
Coincidence
In about 2004, I moved from London to Houston, Texas.
Oct 19
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Adam Smyth
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September 2024
Boxes!
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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