Birthday morning
Today is my birthday. Astonishingly, it’s sunny. Proof: Yep, we’ve rearranged the furniture–all the good things about moving with none of the…
Read moreMonth: September 2011
Fabulous LGBT books: the Green Carnation longlist
The Green Carnation Prize 2011 longlist has just been announced (hat tip to Cheryl Morgan). It’s a delicious-looking set of queer books:…
Read moreLuscious autumnal melancholy
So here’s a book I think would be lovely for autumn, The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation, ed. Greg Delanty and…
Read moreNew video interview with Ursula K. Le Guin
My friend Mark Tiedemann recently interviewed Ursula K. Le Guin for ReadMOre, Missouri’s annual statewide reading celebration. The technical quality isn’t brilliant…
Read moreApocalyptic money talk
It’s all over, apparently. At least according to independent trader Alessio Rastani: It was pretty astonishing to see a BBC presenter utterly…
Read moreAud’s woodworking
From: Jennifer Schwarz I just read Always, the first of your books that I have found. Thank you. I love your writing…
Read moreBlue Peter annual is no more
Peter Purves, Lesley Judd and John Noakes, 1977 The very first literary prize I ever won was in 1971. It was a…
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