Archive for October 2014
Can’t get no (any) satisfaction? Try this book…
Autumn is book season, of course. When the nights are getting darker and we all get more contemplative. So, if you’re feeling in the mood for something a bit high-brow which might even be genuinely useful, Steven Pinker’s new tome, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, could…
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Crimson, ochre, ghost white and lemon yellow. A faint, earthy waft of late summer chestnuts. Eye-delighting sunrise and twilight. Oily jamon, coal-black caves, carving cortadores. That’s my week in Spain in a paragraph. I visited in late September for a writing course with a difference. It’s called Dark Angels, and promotes itself as creative writing…
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