Five Questions: pas au-dela

1. Why do you blog?
Well, at least in part as a modest public service, primarily to myself, surely, or whenever we decide to meet, but also as an offering without condition. No delusional fantasies of actual political pull, certainly, though a stronger counter-balance to the middlebrow hegemony in literature would be nice. Nothing [...]



1. Why do you blog?
My main blog is Never Neutral but I have several others. It’s a commonplace, but I blog because I have a need to communicate. I have always connected writing and publishing. As a teenager I edited a couple of fanzines, which I sold/swapped mainly by (snail) mail. Me and my brother [...]






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