Posts filed under “writing”.
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
What do you do when your wife takes your child and leaves you alone in a city of ghosts?
Hans van den Broek chooses cricket . . .
Presque vu LXXIX
In the face of a growing number of deaths and cases of HIV linked to drug abuse, the Portuguese government in 2001 tried a new tack to get a handle on the problem—it decriminalized the use and possession of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, LSD and other illicit street drugs. The theory: focusing on treatment and prevention instead of jailing users would decrease the number of deaths and infections.
They Simply Could Not
“I would like to live in a perpetual September,” he writes in September 1935. “One does one’s best to prefer Spring, in vain.” One recalls the story about his comment, made many years later, to a friend who was with him watching cricket on a sunny day and who had just said, perhaps forgetting to whom he was talking, that it was the kind of day that made you glad to be alive; “I wouldn’t go as far as that” was the (apocryphal) reply.
Winged with Death Virtual Tour – 15
Today I’m in Frome, Somerset, at Crysse Morrison’s blog, A Writer’s Life.
Crysse Morrison has been reading Winged with Death, my latest novel, for the last week or so.
As well as her blog, Crysse Morrison is a novelist and writer. She runs workshops and courses for writers. She enjoys reading and dancing.
She has some thoughts about [...]
Winged with Death Virtual Tour – 12
Today I’m in Clydebank, Scotland, at Jim Murdoch’s blog The Truth About Lies.
Jim has been reading Winged with Death for the last few weeks.
As well as his blog, Jim Murdoch is a poet and writer, author of the novel Living with Truth.
Jim has an extensive review of Winged with Death, combined with close questioning of [...]
