Sister sledge

An interesting article about women writers.
Enjoy.

Hoooooray

Sloane Crosley has written a second collection of semi-autobiographical essays. There ain't no other word for it but hoooray (multiple 'o's obligatory).

Dark side of the moon

Sadly, although I was travelling in Europe last month, I didn't make it to Sweden! Crazy as it is, this article actually made me more keen to cross it off my to-do list.
Enjoy (?)

So what are you reading?

What book would make you want to start a conversation?
If I saw anybody reading Joan Didion or David Sedaris, or maybe Sloane Crosley, I have to say I'd be tempted.

"I think what we need is a return to a belief not in liberty, because that is easily converted into something else, as we saw, but in equality. Equality, which is not the same as sameness. Equality of access to information, equality of access to knowledge, equality of access to education, equality of access to power and to politics. We should be more concerned than we are about inequalities of opportunity, whether between young and old or between those with different skills or from different regions of a country."


Sorry for the lack of posts of late, I've been lucky enough to have been travelling around Europe. One man who arguably had an unrivalled knowledge of the continent was academic and historian Tony Judt, of whom I have written previously and whose passing was acknowledged with a wonderful (for lack of a better word) obituary in the Observer.