Interview with Bret Easton Ellis, Feb 25th 1999, University Observer.
This was I suppose the high water mark of my student journalism career. How it happened was this. Ken Early, now of Second Captains and the Irish Times, was editing…
On Borges’ Discovery of the Internet Before it Existed
This is a fantastic post which manages to marry my interests in Borges and sleep/insomnia very effectively! Borges’ “The Library of Babel” is usually cited as a conceptual precursor to…
Where are the magpies?
Since getting back into birding, the daily species count in my garden is usually in the low to mid teens. But there is one notable absentee – the magpie. The…
Little egrets
In the last few years I have begun to re-engage with birding after a long hiatus. I wouldn’t quite say I lost interest in my teens; more than birding became…
“The Doctor” – Elizabeth Shane
Originally posted on A Medical Education:
Elizabeth Shane (1877-1951) was a Belfast-born poet who lived most of her life in Donegal. “Tales of the Donegal Coast and Islands” is a…
John Lewis-Stempel on anthropomorphism. From “Meadowland: The Private Life of An English Field”
While I have some misgivings about the “lab coated lobby” part (I suspect that the sneering phenomenon Lewis-Stempel describes doesn’t so much emanate from “science Puritans” as simple cynicism, perhaps…
From “Rituals” by Cees Nooteboom
“I sleep very little,” said Philip Taads. He was sitting in the same place as yesterday and wore a plain blue kimono. “Sleeping is senseless. A peculiar form of absence…
Filter It. Reviews of “Take Me To The Source” by Rupert Wright and “The Blue Death” by Robert D Morris, TLS, 17/10/08
I previously posted my submitted text of this reviews but, thanks again to Maren Meinhardt, I am herein re-posting the actual published text. FILTER IT Rupert Wright TAKE ME TO…
Séamus Sweeney 