Richard Carter
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Adapting to a new camera
How a new camera enforced a new approach, and brought unexpected delight.
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Rich Text newsletter No. 36: ‘Such an ugly looking baby’
A startling personal revelation • an ugly baby • a bad pun about crossword puzzles • some sound advice from Kathleen Jamie, and all the usual links and book reviews.
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Wheezy calls
An encounter with some delightful birds.
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Making predictions
Chalk another one up for science!
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Book review: ‘The Essays: a selection’ by Michel de Montaigne
Classic personal essays from the man who established the genre.
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Book review: ‘The Keelie Hawk’ by Kathleen Jamie
Poems in Scots.
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Book review: ‘The Ongoing Moment’ by Geoff Dyer
A book about photography.
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Book review: ‘Camera Lucida’ by Roland Barthes
A grandiloquent analysis of our most accessible means of visual representation, the photograph.
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Book review: ‘The View in Winter’ by Ronald Blythe
Reflections on old age.
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Book review: ‘The Diary of Virginia Woolf, volume 5’
A final volume of diaries, covering a momentous time in British and European history.
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End of Draft One-and-a-half
I have finally—FINALLY—completed the first draft of my Darwin book!
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Book review: ‘Rare Singles’ by Benjamin Myers
The come-back of a one-and-a-half-hit soul wonder.