Podcast review – Barry Lopez’ Arctic Dreams
Listening time: 15 minutes. It’s about a quarter of a century since I first read this moving and...
Unexpected ignorance, unexpected knowledge
Maggie Tulliver is a girl whose brightness and spirit are constantly curtailed and nearly crushed. Throughout her childhood she is...
Two years and counting!
WritingRedux was launched in 2016 on the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth which happens to be Saint Jordi's Day in Spain,...
Your chosen family
Most readers, particularly those who make little distinction between the past and present in seeking their sustenance, will be able to...
Revisiting The Hobbit
The Hobbit is the first major book of which I have a conscious memory. Probably four or five years...
Forgetting and forgetfulness
I like this questioning of cause versus effect in the writing - and reading - of novels. Does writing and...
Podcast review – Molly Peacock’s Paper Garden
Listening time: 12 minutes. This is a biography of an artist written by a poet. It's also a...
The best part of books…
Obvious when you put it like that. But it’s got me trying to think of what’s actually happening in books...
Fuel for the body or mind?
Book burning, or bibliocide, is usually something we associate with ideologues, political or religious, fearful of the free flow of...
Letters opening up like doors
What a wonderful description of words and letters opening up to let meaning emerge in brightness and fire. How much...
Worse than cocaine
If you were traversing the Soviet Union it was better to be caught with a kilo of cocaine than a...
From tapers to tinder
I loved this description of a young boy going to all lengths to be able to read as much as...
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