And it was “The Language of Television, Uses and Abuses,” by Albert Hunt.
Machiavelli and Guicciardini
Thursday 4 April 2024 My greatest reading pleasure this year has been in discovering the historian Felix Gilbert, and in particular his bo...
The Life of Castruccio Castracani
Friday 19 January 2024 I was talking a bit about this book to P.R. last night. Castruccio Castracani was a warlord who lived two centurie...
What would Practical Pig do if he didn't have any bricks, and he didn’t have any time?
I have two ways out from the burden of these incomplete and unpublished works. One is to publish, and the other is to give up. And publishing is also a form of giving up, saying this is all I can do, you take it for what it is worth. But first, I'll try to make it a little better, and carry it all a little further.
Loraine Masiya Mponela publishes her second poetry collection NOW I SING to mark her 50th birthday, with a launch on Saturday 27 January, 2pm at Methodist Central Hall, Coventry.
https://noaudienceloraine.co.uk/2024/01/19/now-i-sing/Now I Sing – No Audience Loraine (NAL)
I have been trying to remember a book I read in the 1980s about media and education. It was by some British educator who had made videos with secondary school students to explore different ideas. One was a drama about Johannes Kepler based on The Maltese Falcon. And I think the other might have been a drama comparing school to a prison camp. Does anyone have any memory of this?
A writer doesn’t weave a story, they spin a yarn, a single thread of words that may loop and knot but remains monolinear, and the weaving of that thread is done by those who come after, typesetters, designers, readers of a book, performers and directors of a play, audiences who form an ephemeral fabric in the mind.
Dan Reynolds