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Writing tagged: ‘W.G. Sebald’

‘M Train’ by Patti Smith

Book review: ‘M Train’ by Patti Smith

A fascinating exercise in ‘writing about nothing’.

Published 28-Aug-2016
Filed under: Writing Genres: People Tags: books, Patti Smith, reviews, W.G. Sebald
Thierleben frontispiece
Frontispiece from a reprint volume of the second edition of Brehms Thierleben (Image: Wikipedia)

The seahorse and the pelican

How a passage from W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn might give a clue to some family history.

Published 17-Jul-2015
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: reminiscences, Robert Graves, W.G. Sebald
Walking the dog, Venice

Venice: a model for car-free living?

It is entirely possible, it turns out, for a city to function without cars and vans and lorries. Who would have thought it? But is it practical?

Published 23-Apr-2015
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: environment, Italy, W.G. Sebald
Southwold

Sebald’s TV listing

When you enter into Sebald’s universe, it seems to me, you have to play along.

Published 06-Jan-2015
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: on writing, W.G. Sebald
Books

What I read in 2014

I read 36 books in 2014. This shows an uncharacteristic degree of consistency on my behalf.

Published 06-Jan-2015
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: Kindle, reading, W.G. Sebald
Urnfield
Bronze Age Urnfield.

The Thomas Browne Affair

On the seventeenth-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne, and his tenuous connection with my local moor.

Published 27-Jun-2013
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: archaeology, Calder Valley, expeditions, favourite places, Hebden Bridge, On the Moor (book), the Moor, Thomas Browne, W.G. Sebald
Typewriter

The power of the anecdote

On the effectiveness of anecdotes and understatement in conveying catastrophic events.

Published 09-Dec-2012
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: LRB, on writing, W.G. Sebald
W.G. Sebald

Books by or about W. G. Sebald

A list of Sebald-related books reviewed on this site.

Published 01-Jan-2000
Filed under: Writing Genres: Fiction, History, People, Poetry Tags: W.G. Sebald

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