Sightlines - commemorating WG Sebald's 75th birthday
This month, two exhibitions and a flurry of symposia in his home town of Norwich commemorate what would have been the writer WG Sebald’s 75th birthday.
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I recently participated in an event organised by Birkbeck College’s journal of new writing, The Mechanics’ Institute Review. MIR is planning the first of several themed issues. The inaugural one will be on ‘Climate’ – a broad concept, as we discussed.
We are all Walter Benjamin Now
Photo: the image of Walter Benjamin at the Whitney Gallery, New York City, August 2018.
There'll Always Be You Tube: 'Call Me By Your Name' and its Afterlife
How to Save Britain's Wildlife?
Reading Mark Cocker's Our Place
Signs of the City - Psychogeography in literature
Psychogeographers Unite
The Swimming Pool Library
Pools in novels, short stories and films
Borderland: Walking La Ruta Walter Benjamin
Cities of the mind
Architecture and fiction
‘Novels about architecture don’t sell.’ A fellow writer told me this years ago, at a literary festival in Canada. He’d written a novel about an architect which, as far as I could tell, was doing well.
Adapting to the film world
Nicholas Cage delivers his elevator pitch to Meryl Streep in Adaptation (2002).