Richard Carter
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Book review: ‘A Place in the Country’ by W.G. Sebald
Essays on five writers and a painter who influenced Sebald’s work.
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Newsletter No. 27: ‘Getting hitched’
The Pros and Cons of tying the knot • prehistoric invention • Ernest Shackleton • W.G. Sebald • swallows • comma splices • Amy Liptrot • Kapka Kassabova • and more…
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Newsletter No. 26: ‘Slits for pupils’
Research triage • filing your nuggets • pupil shapes • Amy Liptrot • moths and bats • critical reading • early medieval history • Tim Dee • book reviews • and more…
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Book review: ‘The Journal of a Disappointed Man’ by W.N.P. Barbellion
A deliberately self-inflated masterpiece.
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Book review: ‘The Diversity of Life’ by Edward O. Wilson
On our most valuable but least appreciated resource.
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Limitations of the blog format
For some time now, I’ve been growing increasingly conscious of the limitations of the blog format in catering for the provisional nature of factual writing.
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Newsletter No. 25: ‘Painting the Forth Bridge’
On the undefinitiveness (I made that word up) of factual writing. Plus some cool links and book recommendations.
