Unbound
I don’t know what we’re going to do when they stop printing newspapers. I love when I’m in a slow mood and pick up last weeks papers and go through the ‘arts and books’ pages [...]
And Zombies…
Don’t you love the way a classic is re-interpreted and given a bit of a twist? I wonder is Jane Austen smiling or twisting in her grave? I can add nothing to these jacket notes… [...]
FOC Short Story Festival
I met Pat Cotter, the director of the Munster Literature Centre, at a party in Conal Creedon‘s house during the summer and he asked me would I introduce Colm Tóibín at the Frank O’Connor Short [...]
How it All Adds Up
“A human lifespan is, on average, 79 years. In that time a person on average eats 479 fish fingers, takes 7163 baths, sheds 121 pints of tears, dreams 104,390 dreams, goes through 1033 chickens, buys [...]
Jo to You
I’m still fond of snail mail and will often write a letter and send it off in the post. Sadly there’s only one, maybe two, people who still post a letter to me but receiving [...]
You can write a play
When I was on the Pentagram website I found this. I’m delighted I found it because recently I met a friend that I hadn’t seen for a long time and he told me he was [...]
Hey, what you reading?
A few days ago I did a post on what people are listening to – when they are walking around with head phones. Here’s a post on what people are reading. This could go on [...]
Blagging or Blogging?
This is the 200th post in the Raven Design Blog. We began blogging (or blagging) in January this year so for just six months we are not doing too bad. We are very happy with [...]
Go the FUCK to sleep
This is the book I needed about 20 years ago. When Adam Mansbach’s daughter Vivien was two, seen here in a rare photograph of them both actually asleep, she would usually take at least two hours [...]
Write here
It’s much easier to picture the studios of artists and designers – but it’s not so easy to imagine where writers write. Based on the excellent Writers’ Houses site, [...]
