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Mount Rushmore carved with a Swiss Army knife

December 4, 2009

Cormac McCarthy is auctioning the Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter he has used for the past 50 years (and 5 million words). Cormac McCarthy has written more than a dozen novels, several screenplays, two plays, two short stories, countless drafts, letters… Continue reading →

Category books, culture

A Royal Welcome

May 1, 2007

We popped to the royal festival hall, last night for the final part of their acoustic tuning events. The line-up was messily eclectic, but we were supposedly there for the sound more than the music. And well, the jazz sounded… Continue reading →

Category books, miscellania

Carrying the Fire

October 11, 2006

Cormac McCarthy’s latest book ‘The Road’ is quite possibly the best thing you will read all year. Stripped of some of the author’s usual dense, impenetrable prose the story of a father and son’s journey through a horrifically bleak post-apocalyptic… Continue reading →

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