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Archive for January, 2008

Everything Passes

For some time now I’ve been finding it hard to read. I glance over my bookshelves and the books that lie there, which I know I’d enjoy if I read them, seem to repel me. I pick one up, leaf through it, and I either can’t get started, or lose interest after a few pages. [...]

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The moleskine phenomenon has been very strange. They’re an extremely popular notebook, often for very silly reasons. I won’t go into the company’s largely bogus claims that its product is the same kind of notebook that Chatwin, Hemingway and a bunch of Left Bank poets used. The very clever marketing of Modo & Modo, the [...]

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