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Monday. 19 September 2011. Hastings Old Town. The eyes of the liberated and still nameless swan are blind as Homer. Which is appropriate. White plastic ridges in a sheltering declivity. The proud black beak points at the raging ocean, priapic as a rudder, and hinting at one disturbing fact: if the snout [...] The Hague event was well-attended, with members of the audience coming from a whole scatter of disciplines. A street where I had been wandering, by accident, that afternoon, was connected with Sebald‘s excursion in ‘Rings of Saturn’. Another man told me how he carried through the project of living in his car, while staying on [...] The weather programme I’m doing for BBC Radio 4 (Saturday 6th: 8pm) is taking most of my energies, with writing, doing interviews, and recordings. But I did manage to get my hands on the French edition of ‘London Orbital’. It’s a handsome production, with elegant graphics and a fold-out M25 map. I’m very pleased with the [...] I’m collecting ‘Postcards from the 7th Floor’ soon. And will be offering 26 special copies, lettered & signed by myself & Oona Grimes, with additional material, for sale. As well as trade copies. Kevin Ring, as you know, is publishing ‘American Smoke’, a revised extract from GHOST MILK. And Mr Jones Watches are launching [...] There was a piece, by Alan Franks, entitled ‘Wild Things (Nature writing: it’s the new rock ‘n’ roll)’, in the Times on Saturday (June 19). It includes a brief account of a walk I took with Richard Mabey, down the canal to the Olympic Park. (I have done an introduction for the reissue of his [...] |
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