Archive for July, 2009

Infallibly papal

Ex Cathedra is a new lit­er­ary magazine that is “unaf­fili­ated with any reli­gion, except that of fine lit­er­at­ure”, and I have a piece of prose entitled ‘Swal­low’ fea­tured in it. It’s in PDF format, so click through to page 80 to read my vague out­pour­ings. Or rather don’t, not imme­di­ately, no mat­ter how much you […]

Suck pen, chew tongue, swallow phlegm, write

People con­stantly ask me — as in no people, not con­stantly and never ask — about my raison d’être for writ­ing. When I write. Which isn’t very often these days, seem­ingly. But when I do, they ask me. And since I am the quint­es­sen­tial shy, retir­ing type, I never reply. I just shift uncom­fort­ably in […]