The best way to find out if you understand something is to write about it.
Author: Richard Carter
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Book review: ‘The Art of Creative Nonfiction’ by Lee Gutkind
Writing and selling the literature of reality.
Book review: ‘A Year Unfolding’ by Angela Harding
Ever since, at school, I made a crappy linocut of Tony the Tiger, copied from the front of a box of Kellogg’s Frosties, I’ve been a fan of the format. Linocuts, I mean; not cereal boxes. It’s one of those things the frustrated visual artist in me keeps saying he’d like to have another go… Continue reading Book review: ‘A Year Unfolding’ by Angela Harding
Reading more eclectically
The more eclectically you read, the better your chances of making unexpected connections between different topics.
2021: a year in photos
My eleventh annual video slideshow.
Book review: ‘A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year’ edited by Jane McMorland Hunter
A poetry anthology.
Book review: ‘Birdsong in a Time of Silence’ by Steven Lovatt
A celebration of birdsong during a pandemic.
Book review: ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ by Dylan Thomas
A Christmas classic, wonderfully illustrated by Peter Bailey.
Book review: ‘Horizon’ by Barry Lopez
Memoir, place and empathy.
Newsletter No. 24: ‘Unclassifiable’
W.G. Sebald · Jan Morris · Jonathan Meades · prehistoric megafauna · Rebecca Solnit · complex numbers · Vikings! · Richard Mabey · Jeff Young · Horatio Clare · chess · Charles Darwin (obviously)