Archive - TEXT!

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

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 •

The Book-Makers!

I have a book coming out next month!

Mar 1 •

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 •

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 •

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 •

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 •

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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