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He shares a birthday with former R.E.M.
He shares a birthday with former R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry. He’s not sure if that means anything, but it’s fun to note. Bill Berry is an uncontroversial person to share a birthday with. There are oth...
As the blue bookmarks suggest, this is one for the podcast, and a very welcome advance copy (the first advance copy the podcast has received directly. Progress!). When you read this the episode will have been recorded but it won’t be out un...
Precedent, baby: the mother’s milk of, you know, making your point and being right.
Donna Moss, The West Wing
Borrowed Scenery
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In The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng’s novel about the Japanese occupation of Malaya, the Japanese...
Nagoya, where I work and thankfully don’t live.
It’s been a while since I wrote about life out here, mainly because nothing much has happened that is either worth sharing or that would be appropriate to share publicly. Still, life has been...
When I started this Substack five years ago, the main reason I was attracted to the platform was the possibility of serialising a book. Salman Rushdie was doing it at the time, and I’ve long liked the idea of novels in serialisation in the...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Author, poet, journalist, editor. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, now living in Japan.
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