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Baroque in Hackney
http://baroqueinhackney.wordpress.com
"Poet, critic, copywriter, editor, conversationalist, style consultant, personal shopper, siren, and housemaid to the gods - at least they think they’re gods." A literary, cultural and life-based blog based in Hackney, east London.
Recent Posts
how orders are processed at Salt Publishing
Amazon, eat your heart out! (And here’s what you can buy… ) ...
Gary McKinnon: that pesky extradition treaty explained
I just knew last night’s garbled post wasn’t going to get the thing across. The thing is, Gary McKinnon has considerable charm, his story is engaging and a bit endearing, and he has compelling personal issues. But this case is bigger and ...
stop press: Gary McKinnon huge threat to international security, official
This Thanksgiving I am not thankful to hear that the Home Secretary of the UK has denied Gary McKinnon his further right of appeal against his extradition to the US. Not thankful at all. I wanted to blog this ages ago, and I’m not sure why I n...
the novel: not just for twits
My recent post on Zadie Smith’s essay on essays highlighted the strange tension between fiction, and what it does and doesn’t seem to be doing for us – denizens as we are of a restless, confused age. Well, there is clearly somethin...
I’m just a poor boy, from a poor family
Sorry – I’ve been sick in bed for days! I didn’t even know the date today till about ten minutes ago – and there are still almost ten minutes left – and I never did get to that meditation on the demise of Borders and th...
the lost spam of sambo
Oh no! I have accidentally deleted the spam I was saving for a rainy day! There were several good ones, including a name I liked very much, something M. Horvath; but the star was the one called Tiger in Underwear. Beautiful, isn’t it. (It’...
