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. [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Everything Passes
Posted in Books, Writing, tagged josipovici, literature, Writing on Sunday, January 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Green Apple Moleskine
Posted in Fountain Pens, Moleskine, tagged Fountain Pens, green apple, Moleskine on Sunday, January 13, 2008 | 14 Comments »
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 [...]


