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Revealed: Amazing glimpse inside the brain of a writer. Part 2.
As far as I know, I’m not officially dyslexic. However I’m incredibly bad with names (and faces). This is obviously because I’m so incredibly creative, with whole galaxies inside my brain of such extraordinary brilliance that the banal everyday world in which other poor souls live looks like McDonalds to my El Bulli. Either that [...]
The economic downturn. Coming soon to a wardrobe near you.
Sorry, but i had to post this. I get a lot of catalog e-mails from sites I might have visited ages ago, particularly American ones from those halcyon days when the pound was very strong against the dollar. Sometimes I unsubscribe, most of the time I don’t bother. And this site has some nice jewellery. [...]
You’ve heard of battery chickens, meet factory books.
James Frey (author of A Million Little Pieces, the controversial non-memoir) is at it again. A massive best seller, I Am Number Four, was created in his teen book factory, Full Fathom Five. It has already earned him a whole lot of money and a good number of enemies, neither of which seems to ruffle his teflon feathers. [...]
Olympic pole dancing. Because you’re worth it.
Why is it that the minute you get back to home sweet home, you inevitably encounter a news item so stunningly moronic that you have to check the date three times to make sure it’s not April fools day? “Many of us have decided that its about time pole fitness is recognized as a competitive [...]
Homeward bound.
All good things must come to an end. And though this has been one of the nicest book festivals I’ve ever had the pleasure of attending, real life beckons.
Water.
The Auckland Readers & Writers festival is an absolutely brilliant book festival — full of wonderful authors, amazing food, generous volunteers who’ll do anything for you, hugely enthusiastic booksellers and audiences of 800+, not to mention life-changing talks (James Fergusson on The Taliban blew my mind completely. I’m desperately trying to remember what I learned about [...]
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