A journey is search of the pleasure and powers of silence.
Reviews: Biography/Memoir
Book review: ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’ by Rebecca Solnit
Getting lost as a way to finding yourself.
Book review: ‘Just Kids’ by Patti Smith
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe and their lives together.
Book review: ‘Under a Broad Sky’ by Ronald Blythe
Book 8 in the Wormingford series.
Book review: ‘A Place in the Country’ by W.G. Sebald
Essays on five writers and a painter who influenced Sebald’s work.
Book review: ‘Village Hours’ by Ronald Blythe
Book 7 in the Wormingford series.
Book review: ‘Speak, Memory’ by Vladimir Nabokov
An autobiography revisited.
Book review: ‘On Writing’ by Stephen King
A memoir of the craft
Book review: ‘The Emigrants’ by W.G. Sebald
File under Sebaldian.
Book review: ‘The Rings of Saturn’ by W.G. Sebald
Unclassifiable masterpiece.