Air Tap!, Erik Mongrain.
Low C, Erick Turnbull.
Afraid to Dance, Don Ross.
Aerial Boundaries, Michael Hedges.
Scratch, Antoine Dufour.
Ebon Coast, Andy McKee.
Timeless, Erik Mongrain.
Drifting, Andy McKee.
Thin Air, Don Ross.
TCLD, Stefano Barone.
Entries from July 2009
July 31, 2009
candy
July 29, 2009
a dark fraught place
Mid day I walk up & down Church St, a street the business of which takes place at other times. I walk up & down looking in shop windows until I reach the Rose & Crown at the junction with Albion Rd. Three or four paces ahead of me a young woman tries door after [...]
July 26, 2009
caught
S sends me Vanessa Gebbie’s Words from a Glass Bubble. I am captured instantly by the first three paragraphs of the title story, which begins–
The Virgin Mary spoke to Eva Duffy from a glass bubble in a niche halfway up the stairs. Eva, the post woman, heard the words in her stomach more than her [...]
July 25, 2009
fantastic women
If you missed Jo Cammack’s The Time of Their Lives on BBC4, it’s still available on iPlayer. Watching it, I thought: Would it be possible to kettle the women of the Mary Fielding Home for the Active Elderly ? Somehow I doubt it. There’s an interview with Jo here. & of course you can go [...]
July 24, 2009
into thin air
During my recent eczema of list-making I forgot Thin Air, by George E Simpson & Neal R Burger. How could that happen ? When you’re tired of military-industrial horror-science conspiracy fiction written by non-sf writers you’re tired of life. I mean that sincerely.
July 22, 2009
the monster group
Lara Pawson is blogging again, at Unreal. Ben Tye has been blogging his return to climbing after a lay-off–a subject of deep interest to me–at Ben’s Simple Blog (check out his Flikr stream too).
Looking forward to Alexander Masters’ book on Simon Norton, not just because Stuart: A Life Backwards was so good, but because, who [...]
July 21, 2009
lunar clandestino
Paul McAuley has this. Looking at it I realised that I’m no longer interested in a world in which a WW2 bomber hasn’t been found on the Moon.
July 20, 2009
shelf love, h to j
Another bulletin from the bookshelf. Many favourites here, from Dubliners to Down There On A Visit. Am I going to compare Tree of Smoke with Dispatches ? I am not.
Rawi Hage
Dashiell Hammett
Elizabeth Hand
Colin Harrison
Kent Haruf
Graham Harvey
Pete Hautman
Dick Hebdige
Michael Herr
Werner Herzog
Russell Hoban
Fred Hoyle
John H Holland
Michel Houellebecq
Bernard Huevelmans
Liam Hudson
Christopher Isherwood
Denis Johnson
Steve Jones
James Joyce
The rawest item on the [...]
July 15, 2009
fear & loathing by the rochdale canal
She has so many emails from writers, the bookshop owner says, that sometimes it’s hard to get any work done at all! In those few words the Calder Valley clamps down on you as relentlessly as it did on any Victorian loom operator & you’re deformed instantly by some geographic-claustrophobic metaphor for the whole Ted [...]
July 9, 2009
see you next week
Under the title Grumpiness Is the Fifth Truth Condition, Infinite Thought has this–
Heine recalling his meeting with Hegel in Berlin. Heine, expressing his appreciation of the night-sky, was met with this response from Hegel:
‘The stars, harrumph, the stars are only a gleaming leprosy on the sky.’ – quoted in Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal [...]
