Thursday June 8 2012 Brooklyn, NYC In contrast to the previous night’s divey excesses, this evening was exceedingly sensible – shopping and laundry – but no less exciting for the wee frisson of celebrity brought by the former, and the iconic Americana of the latter. Shopping took place at the Greene Hill Food Co-op , where the organic produce is bounteous, the 2D design witty and cute, the checkout...
Wednesday June 6 2012 Brooklyn, NYC I am – as they say – a ‘huge fan’, both of Neil Young and of the rock biography genre. And of Patti Smith, for that matter. And the entire history of punk and post-punk music in New York.** Today at Book Expo America, I got the astonishing chance to see Neil talking to Patti*** in person about writing, in advance of...
Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine: the Bergdorf-Goodman shoe sale. Friday June 9 2012 Brooklyn, NYC Where has the week – and too much of my money – gone? Into repairing my broken laptop computer.* Grrr. Hence the long silence. But like publishers everywhere, I’m still digitising the sketchy backlist/backlog so the rest will be up super soon, and in no particular order. Meanwhile, I accidentally go shopping. Ah,...
Friday 1 June 2012 11:00am Brooklyn, NYC Midmorning. I’m right under the Brooklyn bridge, bent double and staring at a steaming, gloopy pile of dog shit in the dust – and it’s neither made of plastic, nor from Chinatown – when a seething pack of dogs, incl a pit bull, a Great Dane and a truly enormous Irish wolfhound, bowl into me at high speed. Unpleasant and scary as...
May 30 2012 12:00pm Wellington, NZ So I leave Wellington, New Zealand today for New York, NY and the US of A more generally. 30 May – 30 June, that’s the deal. I’ll write – something – every day. You only need to know a couple of things as background: 1) I love America, Americans and all things American. This may yet be tested. 2) I’m on a very...
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