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Dicovery/Go Figure

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

My legs don’t get stiff when I go for a run. They get stiff when I sit down and write about it.

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On the 27th draft translation of Basho’s ‘Sound of Water’

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Master, due respect: No-one cares about the pond. Or the frog. ……………(Plop.) ……………………(Splash!)

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A poet’s room (after Oppen)

Friday, March 16, 2012

A poet’s room, these days, is probably his girlfriend’s, or an upstairs corner of his mother’s house – unless, with luck, he’s made it big, or, being smart, just married into money.

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Why Peter Ackroyd publishes more than me

Friday, March 16, 2012

Her argument Peter Ackroyd is a genius. Peter Ackroyd is a workaholic. Peter Ackroyd is a Brilliant Man. My argument Peter Ackroyd doesn’t have a girlfriend.

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Nicholson Baker confesses

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

‘Sometimes, when I finish typing a sentence I like, I flick my hand up from the keyboard like a pianist at the end of a piece. But this was not one of those times.’

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