'I couldn’t shake the nagging sense that the achievement of my walk had in some way been negated by the manner in which I’d returned.'

My piece on travel and return, out now in Noema Magazine noemamag.com/traveling-at-t…

My super talented, super funny friend and ex-colleague Dan has been diagnosed with a brain tumour. Please give generously to help him access new treatments gofund.me/6c184261 🙏❤️

Happily devoured Gary Shteyngart's account of a week on the massive boat, which echoes Foster Wallace's observation about cruises being 'unbearably sad' without feeling derivative.

Particularly love his elegant treatment of the question: 'who is it for!?' The answer: not writers.

The incredibly precise intel & targeting involved in Israel’s pinpoint air strike on the Iranian generals in Damascus is a stark reminder, as if any was needed, that everything it’s done in Gaza is equally deliberate and not some inevitable collateral damage of fighting Hamas.

Just got totally inspired by a car park ticket machine.

Great to be reminded of this political titan's mesmerizing charisma.

Forever haunted.

Call it off, football has peaked for the weekend

Probably, yes.

Today is publication day. So far I’ve cleaned up two puddles of toddler sick and learned how to open a broken washing machine door using only a piece of garden twine. Nipped out to celebrate for 10 mins.

Thanks all who came on this journey with me. Cheers to those yet to come x

It lives! Congratulations, Oliver Smith. A beautiful thing indeed.

(You can tell your publishers loved the final result because they put gold bits on.)

The Bellevue des Alpes Hotel has sat on the Scheidegg Pass, in Switzerland's Bernese Oberland, since 1840.

Its current incarnation dates back to 1925, and I am totally enamoured.

I can't get over this dude having the same name as an inflammatory condition that makes it hard to walk.

Some time between laying out the newspaper and providing a bowl of cat food you'd have thought they'd realize.

Tough thing to ask given how many people are struggling financially, but for anyone out there with a spare £ or more, please consider supporting our real-life (and/or Twitter) friend Daniel Fahey with treatment costs: gofund.me/6c184261 Thank you ❤️💙

'White Spider' , 'death bivouac' , 'traverse of the gods.' Time to spend a whole day contemplating a mythic mountain that I have been reading about for years.

Like nominative determinism in reverse!

Hello—glad to say that along with Johnny Flynn & the legendary Dave McKean, artist of Sandman & so much more, I’m writing a graphic novel re-telling of The Epic of Gilgamesh; the oldest-known written myth/story.
Early glimpses of Dave’s astonishing art👇
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