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Writing tagged: ‘W.G. Sebald’

Sebald’s TV listing

Southwold

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

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

What I read in 2014

Books

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

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

The Thomas Browne Affair

Urnfield
Bronze Age Urnfield.

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

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

The power of the anecdote

Typewriter

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

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

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