“The text runs 65 pages, short ones, and the prose seems pressed out drop by drop. Dillard later said the book took 14 months to write, full-time, which works out to something like 25 words a day. The sentences are bitten rock, bitter water, biting wind…”
William Deresiewicz
The Atlantic
Jules Evans, author of The Art of Losing Control, gives an introduction on why getting out of our heads is good for us.
Jules Evans
philosophyforlife.org
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Lily Jones
Lily Vanili
Introducing the fabulous Lily Jones - baker to the stars and author of Canongate’s first cookbook.
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Docherty named number four in top ten list of favourite Scottish novels
SBT
Scottish Book Trust
Oliver Burkeman on The Art of Charm podcast, discussing why you might be happier if you resist positive thinking …
An illustrated introduction to The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking.
‘Burkeman would be the first to accept that he hasn’t written the last word on human happiness. But he has written some of the most truthful and useful words on it to be published in recent years. The knowledge Burkeman draws on may well come from others, but the book’s quiet wisdom is all his own. This is a marvellous synthesis of good sense, which would make a bracing detox for the self-help junkie.’
Julian Baggini
The Guardian
Emma Jane Unsworth at excellent live literary night Book Slam, reading from Animals.
“You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars themselves neither require nor demand it.”
“What else is here? I listen. This section of stream purls and riffles amid small stones. What word might be made for what I hear?”
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The trailer for A Life in Progress: a feature length documentary on Alasdair Gray, filmed over the course of fifteen years.
