The Writer's Life Made Easier

Find a patron. Exploit a private income. Rent a garret (but don't pay the rent). Go to Paris, live in obscurity, wait for acclaim - probably posthumous, but you're an artist so you don't care. Graft as a journalist and... More...

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Thursday, 24 March, 2011

Immersed in Reading

Tucked into a corner of Spitalfield's Market, a Japanese tearoom has suddenly materialised; its checkerboard framework and opaque walls give it the look of an anaemic Rubik's cube dropped into the still-wintry bustle of the old marketplace. This is Shoreditch,... More...

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Thursday, 17 March, 2011

'Twittered to Hell'... and back?

So Howard Jacobson doesn't like social networking? When asked by Mariella Frostrup on The Book Show whether he was excited about the role Twitter and other such sites have played in mobilising protests in the Middle East, he wasn't too... More...

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Friday, 4 March, 2011