Pixel Picks – weekly links from around the web: interviews, articles, essays, poetry, fiction and non. Enjoy. On being a vandal: An essay on Lit Hub about the joys of ruining a good book! Fold that page, crack that spine, write in that margin. Other Lives: A short story in The New Yorker about the countless […]
Read more "Pixel Picks. V"Pixel Picks – weekly links from around the web: interviews, articles, essays, poetry, fiction and non. Enjoy. On what makes a good bookseller: An article about the manager of my local bookstore and how she know exactly what book you should read next. A harrowing story: I am partway through the Patrick Melrose novels, and this […]
Read more "Pixel Picks. IV"Pixel Picks – weekly links from around the web: interviews, articles, essays, poetry, fiction and non. Enjoy. Underground Reading: I love everything to do with secret societies and the mysteries that books hold, so this article from The New Yorker about the closing of a secret bookstore makes my world a little more sad. When no […]
Read more "Pixel Picks. III"Pixel Picks – weekly links from around the web: interviews, articles, essays, poetry, fiction and non. Enjoy. Introverts in an extrovert world: Although I am an extrovert myself, I love being alone. So I can appreciate this article from The Atlantic muses over the agony of being an introvert writer who is expected to attend parties, […]
Read more "Pixel Picks. II"I initially borrowed this book from my local library, spying it from afar I picked it up, checked it out, and took it home. This goes to prove my theory that one can undoubtedly judge a book by it’s cover. 35 pages in (incidentally a page about boobs) I realized this was a book I […]
Read more "Women in Clothes: The literature of adornment"Clutching a box of donuts and my shoulder sagging from the weight of books in my bag, I walked out of the rain into the bookstore. A quick hello to the girl at the counter (who was reading), we ambled through the cosy glow of the books and headed upstairs. Hearing laughter from C as […]
Read more "Your Favourite Book: Donut Club. I"As well as reading pages and pages of books, I also read a huge amount online – interviews, articles, essays, poetry, fiction and non. Unlike books, I have no way of tracking and reflecting on these, until now. Weekly I will be posting my pixel picks – links from around the web; sometimes it will […]
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