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Reader event: Food for Thought
Members of staff at The Reader Organisation share their experiences about ‘Food for Thought', an event held at the University…
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
It is rare that the world of books and the world of getting around to writing books come together, but…
The Digital Library
Anthony Grafton's article 'Future Reading' which features in this week's New Yorker has created something of a stir. Its basic…
Writers’ Homes at Risk
Over the past year or so The Rap Sheet, the crime fiction blog of January Magazine has been covering the…
NY Diary 3: Thomas Hardy’s ‘I look into my glass’
Phil reciting 'I look into my glass' by Thomas Hardy in Sarge's Deli 548 3rd Avenue. Not Large's - Sarges!…
Mersey Minis Launch: Number 5, Leaving
Fans of the popular diminutive book series Mersey Minis--mentioned here before--will be pleased to hear about the launch of book…
NY Diary 1: Lint
Featuring Reader editor Philip Davis on 6th Avenue with our Spy from NY, Enid Stubin, she removing the lint from…
Featured Anthology – Oxford Poets 2007 – Hugh Dunkerley
The last poet to feature in this series is Hugh Dunkerley, a teacher at the University of Chichester and currently…
Mersey Care Reads Update
In her piece a few weeks ago, Get Into Reading project worker Mary Weston introduced the Mersey Care Reads project,…
Featured Anthology: Oxford Poets 2007 – Saradha Soobrayen
Saradha Soobrayen is a literary facilitator and Poetry Editor of Chroma: A LGBT Literary Journal. She received an Eric Gregory…
Recommended Reads: Megan Abbott’s Die A Little
Megan Abbott. Die A Little Simon and Schuster, 2005. Nineteen-fifties Hollywood has a seedy glamour that, half a century later,…
Featured Anthology: Oxford Poets 2007 – Kieron Winn
Today's poem comes from Kieron Winn, a freelance teacher and poet. He says of 'Mountain Water', "the final rhyme would…
