Richard Carter
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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.
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Book review: ‘Writing to Learn’ by William Zinsser
The best way to find out if you understand something is to write about it.
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Book review: ‘The Art of Creative Nonfiction’ by Lee Gutkind
Writing and selling the literature of reality.
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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 at some time, although he knows he probably never will. A friend who knows of my linocut fandom gave me this beautiful book for Christmas. It’s packed full of printmaker Angela Harding’s wonderful countryside-inspired lino/vinyl/silkscreen illustrations. Gorgeous, and right up my street.
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Reading more eclectically
The more eclectically you read, the better your chances of making unexpected connections between different topics.
