creativitysIf you are as intense as I am, sometimes the only rest you can get is via a concentrated dose of intensely dark crime fiction, a sort of literary homoeopathy. None gets darker than Andrew Vachss, especially in his Burke series. I am up to my neck in Blue Belle now. Relaxing is not the [...]
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I’m on a train, Italian, to Dublin, late. A phonecall – “can you speak on radio about Ginsberg and Howl? Tomorrow morning?”Erm, “I’m on a train. Then, a plane. I’ve no books. I’ll think of something.”
A man comes in. Multicoloured mother-baked jumper, matted hair, beads adorning a wrist or two, smells of subway piss, might [...]
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I am not sure I achieved what I wanted to achieve in the week’s podcasts. I’m pleased I did them, some people said they enjoyed them (thank you) and yet the amount of energy that they took was more than I bargained for.
I’m trying to unlock the knot in my writing and am wondering if [...]
This podcast is five minutes of me trying to figure out this writing business. And making a mean garlic bread.
In the middle of the Tuscan hills, a bonfire night, barbecues and chestnuts roasting on an open fire. In the distance, I can see fireworks over the ancient town of Montalcino. It’s their festa, or festival, or at least one of many that happen throughout the year. Every town or hamlet in this area has [...]
I stopped working as a therapist yesterday. My long-threatened (to my clients), long-promised (to myself) sabbatical arrived, one that I’d planned and announced eighteen months ago. Timing is a big thing in therapy, and we take beginnings and endings very seriously – and it is especially difficult when it is the therapist who is instigating [...]
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