This fall (starting next week! ACK!! Where is Bunter to pack for me!), I’m doing public events in Stockholm, Kristianstad, Madrid, and Paris. (I’ll also be in Amsterdam, but I don’t believe I’ll have any public events there — I’ll come back and let you know if I do.) I’ll also be in Arlington, VA… Read more »
Lord Peter
Waiting to Be Rescued by My Bunter in Shining Bowler Hat
I’m going to be away from home for 31 of the next 40 days, which is always lovely once I’m on the road but COMPLETELY BONKERS before I go… especially this time, because I need to bring so much stuff and so many books. I mentioned my e-book reader in a previous post… I much… Read more »
Notes from a Few Days Off
If you’ve never seen a movie by Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life (out in theaters now) might not be the best one to start with; I worry that this tale of family relationships in the 1950s and today, starring Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, and Sean Penn, might lose you ’round about the… Read more »
Randutiae for Moving Day
“[Inspector Parker] awoke, after a long day of arduous and inconclusive labour, to the smell of burnt porridge. Through his bedroom window, hygienically open top and bottom, a raw fog was rolling slowly in, and the sight of a pair of winter pants, flung hastily over a chair the previous night, fretted him with a… Read more »
