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Meg Rosoff
Riding and Writing, Part, um, 162.
OK — all of you who don’t get the whole horse thing, look away now. The rest of you may be familiar with my opinions on writing and riding and the parallels to be found therein. I’ve blathered on before about ‘throughness’ – a dressage term that describes the perfect communication of intent between rider [...]
My life in the movies
The best job I ever had was working for Tristar Pictures in NYC as a freelancer in the late 1980s. About once every three weeks, they’d send a bike to my office in the Chrysler building on 42nd street (my day job was in advertising) with a film script or the rough cut of a [...]
Judging books by their covers
Having spent fifteen brief years in advertising, I should know a thing or two about graphic design. In fact, I always thought I had a fairly good eye for design — or at least knew precisely what I liked and what I didn’t. No more. Five years as a writer has completely scrambled my brain [...]
11 Rules for writers
Well, hmmph. I don’t know why the Guardian didn’t ask for MY rules. And I did notice that, with one or two exceptions, the writers I like gave the advice I like. And vice versa. Unlike Philip Pullman, however, I like nothing more than a bit of journalism to while away the time when I should [...]
Oxford, Ho!
Given my inability to recite a single line of Paradise Lost, I doubt they’d let me anywhere near their English department, but I do love the literary festival. Probably because I’ve had some of my best audiences there — must be something in the drinking water. And this year will be better than ever because [...]
This is why I believe in weird psychic phenomena
Through the magic of Facebook, I recently got back in touch with the serious looking person in the orange Snoopy sweatshirt in this picture. The other person, I’m a little embarrassed to admit, is me. The third creature is Leica, my lovely bay mare for the summer, and the photo was taken at horse camp [...]
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