Category: General
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shelved
Well, would you look at that. For an assortment of reasons, but mostly happenstance, the vast majority of my fiction has been published in the US, and/or by fairly small presses. As such, I think this is the only time I’ve been able to just wander into a bookstore—my local bookstore, in this case, namely…
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cornucopia
Filing under “things to be thankful for”: A week’s worth of fruit’n’veg for 88SEK—roughly equivalent to 6.50GBP at current rates of exchange. The open market on Möllevångstorget in Malmö is, I’m told, essentially unique in Sweden; there are fancy “farmer’s markets” in other towns and cities, but no six-days-a-week outdoor trade in basic fresh produce,…
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this battlestation is fully operational
The various registrations of my new firm went through the week before last, but it’s only now that I’ve returned home to find the bank card for the business bank account waiting for me that I feel like I can really act as this commercial entity which I have—perhaps rashly?—summoned into existence. Feels good, if…
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Good morning, Hamburg
Just passing through, though.
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something you get a gold star on
There’s a little aside in the last few paragraphs of Joanne McNeil’s latest newsletter which manages to totally nail something otherwise rather nebulous about contemporary fiction, a thing that I’ve been struggling to articulate clearly. After a re-read of China Miéville’s The City & the City, Jo wonders: Where are the writers with edges? I…