Andrew Foster

@Blacknotebook
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Coach, Writer, Laughs a Lot
Having an old-school espresso at Bar Italia and thinking about Derek Jarman. It’s a good way to spend a cold November Sunday.
Waiting for a train always feels like the start of a little adventure.

I’m a frequent flyer with @cultpens and once again they have delivered exemplary customer service.

Use them. They deserve our support.

A wonderful piece on running, writing and living a quiet and focussed life.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/09/haruki-murakami-the-running-novelist

Via. Warren Ellis’s newsletter, Orbital Operations.

The Running Novelist

Haruki Murakami on learning how to go the distance as a writer and a runner.

The New Yorker
Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay
Silent book club 📚. I love this so much

I had some time to myself yesterday and made a trip to Aldeburgh which was one of my late mother's favourite places.

It was a grey day, but the sea air, architecture, shingle beaches and gulls reminded me of shared times with her.

A good day.

Henry Rollins did a podcast with his manager Heidi May (2015-2019) and I didn't know.That’s my listening sorted for the next couple of weeks.
Obligatory naughty kitten picture.