Hope I'm not jumping the gun here but the #1940Club starts next week and I've been gearing up and getting…
March is Dewithon Month #Dewithon. You can read about this celebration of literary Wales at the link We are all invited…
Norman Pearson returned towards the end of January, after an absence in Spain and Portugal, bearing two bananas, two oranges…
Lots of appropriately scornful responses to the charity Oxfam's Inclusive Language Guide published this week. First of all, it's 92…
A recent NYTimes Cooking newsletter from Melissa Clark drew my attention to the article about Raghavan Iyer by Kim Severson …
Two centuries after William Hogarth published his engravings of the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, Rebecca West wrote a…
Felled by the dreaded lurgy in early January I was sidelined from my usual reading routine. It’s hard to concentrate…
Vimeo has taken down the video "Affirmation Generation" but you can see it here. Take the time to watch this…
Researching Marienbad and the Savoy led me to Erika Mann and all the gossip, scandal, politics, and drama of her…
Here's a treat for those who relish fiction with off-the-wall cognitive mayhem - The Hearing Trumpet Suddenly it seemed as…