Monthly Archives: February 2012

Work in progress

Posted on February 26, 2012 by admin

I’ve just found a CD on my shelf that I’d completely forgotten I owned, a marvellous recording of the Schnittke piano quintet and Shostakovich’s String Quartet 15, performed by the Keller Quartet with Alexei Lyubimov on piano for the Schnittke. … Continue reading →

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Phantom Cities

Posted on February 18, 2012 by admin

Reading about William Gibson’s Collected Essays in The Guardian this morning, I was delighted to learn that Gibson was once an obsessive collector of mechanical watches. I learned also that he had written the introduction to a monograph by Canadian … Continue reading →

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Best New Horror

Posted on February 12, 2012 by admin

Reading becomes more complicated when you’re a writer because you gradually discover that you can no longer ‘just’ read. I don’t mean that the pleasure of reading becomes diluted because it doesn’t – if anything it intensifies, because your focus … Continue reading →

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Oooh, Mildred

Posted on February 4, 2012 by admin

I started reading the new Stephen King last night. It’s early days – only another 700 pages to go – but right there on page 11 I came upon a paragraph that’s been hogging my attention for most of the … Continue reading →

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