Okay, so while it may look as though this post is in defence of Dan Brown–an author who has sold a bazillion books and could probably buy a gold-plated helicopter–in fact it’s in defence of democratic principles. You may be aware that Brown’s new novel The Lost Symbol is out in the US today, about [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Read What You Damn Well Please
Posted in Necessary Vent, The reading life, democratic reading on September 16, 2009 | 15 Comments »
For fear of repeating myself and repeating myself
Posted in The writing life on September 8, 2009 | 15 Comments »
I have been silent for a long time, nursing my secret shame. That I am predictable. I have wanted to blog a number of times, but had nothing new to give you. Just more of the same artistic crisis I had at the start of the last book (remember my hilarious overworked Mt Doom moment?) [...]
