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Sydney, in situ

Back on terra firma Australis. Delighted to see loved ones but shocked at the reality of not being in New York. No idea of whether that’s temporary or, as I fear, more permanent. Slightly jetlagged but of course desperate to work on finalising the text of my...

In transit

The next time I post to this blog I will be back in Sydney. In between now and then I will fly from Reno, Nevada (where it has been snowing) to Los Angeles Airport, then late at night tomorrow board a Qantas flight home. Home: a more complicated idea than it once was....

Getty me outta here

Sorry for the terrible pun. The best thing by far about my trip to LA – apart from finally clutching my edited manuscript to my relieved bosom – was dinner at the Getty Museum restaurant with friends on Saturday night, followed by several hours by myself...

Stunning review for David Kowalski

Friends, if you didn’t see last weekend’s review of David Kowalski’s The Company of the Dead, the wonderful novel to which I played editorial midwife for many years, please take a look here. The author told me that his mother was moved to tears...
MacPop

MacPop

My London friends are Mac aficionados and photography fiends and showed off some of the more interesting features of the iPhoto software. This one is “Pop Art Virginia”. The others – including “Facial Distortion Virginia” and “Photo...

A scam by any other name …

Last week, in the very to-do part of west London called Chiswick, Maria and I were returning to her car when we saw a tall thin woman rushing along the street. She stopped as she came alongside us, and asked us if we spoke English. She then explained, in between fits...
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