A few weeks ago on this blog I mentioned Bryant Park, which as you probably gathered is one of my favourite spots in New York. One part of the park I especially like is the ‘Reading Room’ – a tradition from the 1930’s which they brought back in 2003. The ‘Reading Room’ consists of trolleys
It’s been a while since my last post. Nearly two weeks. But I have an excuse, several in fact. I am in New York, which means there’s a lot to do to distract me from blogging. And the fact that I am writing a novel, which means any writing brainpower should be channeled towards that.
One of the many things I like about being here in NYC is the amount of readings that are on. And that they’re all free. There’s pretty much someone reading somewhere every night of the week and this week I’ve seen two, AL Kennedy and Jonathan Franzen. AL Kennedy’s reading was on Monday – Labour
Yes, the lion is a bit of a giveaway but it’s New York Public library!I think this lion is Fortitude, but it looked quite patient this morning as I came in, allowing a hot looking pigeon to nest in the crook of its shoulder. For anyone who doesn’t know, the two lions Patience and Fortitude
Just thought I would post a link to my guest blogging piece on Writing4All. It started out about getting published but ended up as a piece about how to keep on writing when no-one will publish you! http://www.writing4all.ie/site/news/view/guest_blog/from_there_to_here.htm?filter=21
At this risk of this turning into some kind of birthday blog, I had to post this. Dr Seuss’ children’s classic ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ turned 50 last week. The book was originally a wager, between Dr S (real name Theodore Seuss Geisel) and his editor in Random House, who bet that he couldn’t write
Now I work in marketing and I’ve actually thought about this before. I remember how, when I lived in London, that seeing what people were reading on the Tube was a real barometer of how well a book was doing and often would start a conversation about a particular book when I got into work.
OK technically I don’t know if it matters if a birthday is belated after you’re dead, but catching up on my daily writing mails from Writers’ Almanac today I saw that Philip Larkin’s would have been 9th August (he was born in 1922.) I like the Writers’ Almanac because it’s just the right size for
The last post on Dorothea Brand got me thinking about books on writing and I had a look at my shelves to see how many books about writing I actually had and how many I’d found useful. Like a lot of writers, I probably have quite a few. Some I’ve bought, some have been presents
I’ve just spent the weekend taking part in a yoga workshop, led by John Friend, the founder of Anusara yoga. Now, I don’t really tend to start blogging about yoga because (a) what I don’t know about yoga would fill an ashram and b) because after 8 hours (yes 8!) of yoga over the weekend,
