Darwin · literature

Darwin’s Plots

This afternoon’s speaker, Dame Gillian Beer, is the author of a book I very much want to read now, coming as I am (or have been for what seems an eternity) to the closing pages of a novel I’ve been working on myself.

literature · novels

God Bless Paul Harding: For three years, Paul Harding’s unpublished novel, “Tinkers,’’ sat in a drawer. The writer, a former Boston rock drummer who grew up in Wenham, had tried selling it, but nobody was interested. “I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll be a writer who doesn’t publish,’ ’’ Harding, 42, said this week, a day after… Continue reading

literature · poetry · verse

It being National Poetry Month, there are a couple of things you shouldn’t miss: One is that Siris, in addition to being a philosopher for the working day, is an excellent poet. As demonstrated by samples here and here. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. He posts verse often, so if you haven’t… Continue reading