- The Fever : Megan Abbott
- Hold the Dark : William Giraldi
- The Wolf Border : Sarah Hall
- Rebels, Beats & Poets : Jim Burns
- Selected Poems : Tomas Transtromer
+ yet more of David Kynaston’s book about family (and other) life in Britain in the 50s.
What a terrible week it has been. A week that began with 149 people being flown to their deaths against a mountainside and ended with the deaths of three men who, in their various ways, have brought a great deal, not just to my life, which they each illuminated in a number of ways, but the lives of many others – guitarist John Renbourn, born 1944, poet and Nobel Prize winner Tomas Transtromer, born 1931 and artist Albert Irvin, born 1922.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/27/albert-irvin
I shall attempt to write more about each of these three men later …
A chip on my shoulder you can see from space
Writers & writing: books, movies, art & music - the bits & pieces of a (retiring) writer's life
A blog about music by Richard Williams
Writers & writing: books, movies, art & music - the bits & pieces of a (retiring) writer's life
Writers & writing: books, movies, art & music - the bits & pieces of a (retiring) writer's life
Writers & writing: books, movies, art & music - the bits & pieces of a (retiring) writer's life