Showing posts with label hell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hell. Show all posts
Friday, 18 November 2016

The world is fucked and books are all we have

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The world is fucked and books are all we have. When things are tough, I look for illumination in poetry, nothing has helped, but then a few...
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Tuesday, 29 July 2014

I don't know what to say about Gaza

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I don't know what to say about Gaza, writers should have words, but I have no words. I just want to scream with despair and rage and gr...
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Wednesday, 1 May 2013

The power of narrative (for good and ill)

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I am increasingly interested in why we read stories, I think it might make you a better writer if you understand the seduction of narrativ...
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Monday, 19 November 2012

Tanks In Our Bedrooms

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You feel a helpless fury and incomprehension, you don't even want to see or hear any more news when this is the image you went to sleep...
Monday, 23 July 2012

Love and war

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Born in USA, Janine di Giovanni is a highly respected, award-winning journalist who has covered many zones of  war and hell, so I was keen ...
Monday, 14 March 2011

Authors for Japan Auction

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Writer Keris Stainton is arranging an auction to raise funds for the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal. You can bid for signed copies...
Tuesday, 16 November 2010

A very long post on balance & pain & beauty

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People tell me they enjoy this blog because it gets the balance of ME and non-ME right, how do I manage it? I'm not sure I know. My imp...
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Wednesday, 13 October 2010

The opposite of the moon

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I'm not the first to have observed that the fascinating and moving rescue of the Chilean miners has been reminiscent of watching a moon...
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Monday, 27 September 2010

50 Stories for Pakistan

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Very happy my short story 'The Bangle Man' will be among the soon-to-be published 50 Stories for Pakistan, a fundraising antholog...
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Wednesday, 18 August 2010

Pakistan Floods

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It's hard to believe such suffering is going on and the international response has been so sluggish. Oxfam here. Other links here.
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Friday, 18 June 2010

Luxury items

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Coriander and coffee?! These Gazans don't know they're born.
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Saturday, 6 February 2010

A tale of two cities

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IMEU: Palestine in Photos: East Jerusalem residents languish beyond the wall
Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Why?

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I understand that the medical/rescue workers - heroes, all of them - in Haiti are saving lives in horrible circumstances, but why is there n...
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Monday, 18 January 2010

Fancy a cruise to Haiti?

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Unfucking believable.
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Saturday, 16 January 2010

Hell

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It is impossible not to know what is going on in Haiti just now, and I just read this . All I can do is this (and it's not much but it...
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Tuesday, 29 December 2009

Can't bear it

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I have hardly seen the news this last week, but I saw this last night, a report on the l ast dancing bear in India being released . Fantasti...
Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Donkeys pretending to be zebras

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If you are a donkey in Gaza and you are wondering what to do for Hallowe'en, you can always dress up as a zebra. This is so sad to read...
Sunday, 6 September 2009

Being drawn in by great writing

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I have little appetite for any more 9/11 tales - previously unseen or not - but Colum McCann's piece in yesterday's Guardian reall...
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Sunday, 22 February 2009

Unimaginable

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I've been dipping into Philip Gourevitch's brilliant book about Rwanda for six months now. I can only read a little at a time, not ...
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Monday, 19 January 2009

'Music for Gaza'

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A six-month-old music school in Gaza was bombed during the siege. Dutch charity Music in Gaza will help rebuild the school when possible. Th...
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