Found! inside 2nd-hand copy of More Signs of the Times: "To Darling Boo Boo. I hope our sign will the same in another eight years [heart & arrow doodle x 6 – steadily getting smaller] All my love Vyvyenne" bookdedications.co.uk/more-signs-of-…

Found! inside 2nd-hand copy of Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison: "Thank you for always knowing the right thing to say, even when I came in and had a total meltdown..." bookdedications.co.uk/song-of-solomo…

Late summer reading! Prof. Katharine Murphy has written on Pío Baroja's Camino de perfección in Literary Journeys: Mapping Fictional Travels across the World of Literature (2024). This illustrated book is published internationally by Princeton University Press and Hardie Grant

18 year-old Meg Bailey from Diana Athill's Don't Look At Me Like That: "I was eighteen and no one had ever held my hand before..." livesinlit.com/eighteen-years…

V pleased to have my essay on Nabokov's Lolita included in this.

“Come, come, Mr Bond…”

Good haul.

Steady on…

“You should’ve seen the cover they *wanted* to do. It wasn’t a belt, believe me…”

Found! inside 2nd-hand copy of Nice Work by David Lodge: "To Andrew, a peace offering..." bookdedications.co.uk/nice-work-by-d…

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Have written about Lou Reed for The Quietus thequietus.com/interviews/str…

Me new bit

Really enjoyed writing this…

'Its title-track – a paean to Rachel, Reed’s transgender lover throughout the mid-1970s – is one of his greatest ballads; its final spoken lines arguably the most affecting moment of Reed’s career' ‘Coney Island Baby’ from Coney Island Baby (1975) - The Strange World Of… Lou

Great find inside great ed of great book (Saul Bellow’s Dangling Man) “Last night I realised that what happens to me is that I wind myself up tighter and tighter until I reach a point where I don’t seem to be able to move anymore…” bookdedications.co.uk/dangling-man-b… via DedicatedTo...

*HEAVY* inscription found inside 2nd-hand copy of The Nine Songs - A Study of Shamanism in Ancient China: "I had a dream that I appeared to you as an angel on 4th May 2017 – (I’ll chat to you about it sometime)..." bookdedications.co.uk/the-nine-son...