Calvino’s Surprising Advice on Writing, Editing and Life
How to stop getting weighed down.
Blogs
Serendipity: Cultivating the Art of Creative Luck
Creative luck is not just blind chance. It can be cultivated
The Snorgh Gets a Makeover
The Snorgh and the Sailor is being re-released on the 12th anniversary of its first publication
Everywhere is Exotic, Everywhere is Mundane
Navigating between dreams of elsewhere and dreams of home.
A Strange Collaboration
Completing Elee Kirk's "Snapshots of Museum Experience" in the years after her death
The Duracell Bunny and the Deputy Political Commissar
In which I give a speech about Viagra and the Duracell Bunny for the benefit of the Deputy Political Commissar of the Armed Police General Armament Department.
A. C. Graham on the Uses of Divination
A note on divination from the scholar of Chinese philosophy, A. C. Graham
New Year Thoughts on Grief and Friendship
Grief, friendship, Chinese food and the turning of the year.
