Steve Mitchelmore
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In the post today, the third volume of the new translation, this one by Peter Bush. And for under a tenner from Blackwell's.
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
In the post today, the third volume of the new translation, this one by Peter Bush. And for under a tenner from Blackwell's.
"Victory to Vietnamese" (sic) graffiti still visible on the line between Fratton and Portsmouth & Southsea stations.
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"Victory to Vietnamese" (sic) graffiti still visible on the line between Fratton and Portsmouth & Southsea stations.
Nearly 20 years ago Arcade books announced Richard Howard's translation of Cioran's Cahiers. There was even a cover. But it never appeared. Searching for news just now, I discovered this: dustyhope.com/bel/emil-cio...
September 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Nearly 20 years ago Arcade books announced Richard Howard's translation of Cioran's Cahiers. There was even a cover. But it never appeared. Searching for news just now, I discovered this: dustyhope.com/bel/emil-cio...
Found this on a secondhand stall selling supermarket fiction.
September 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Found this on a secondhand stall selling supermarket fiction.
Take Will Self's suggestion and read Nabokov instead.
August 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Take Will Self's suggestion and read Nabokov instead.
I found this 1965 US paperback on a sweltering day in Portsmouth, June 1987, the day Thatcher's Tories were elected for the third time. The page edges are tinted dark pink.
August 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I found this 1965 US paperback on a sweltering day in Portsmouth, June 1987, the day Thatcher's Tories were elected for the third time. The page edges are tinted dark pink.
On this day, 20 years since Jean Charles de Menezes was shot in the head by British police, I remember this entry to the TLS's 2008 Books of the Year.
As these same marchers are arrested for publically opposing genocide, I wonder who is annihilating these "cosseted freedoms".
As these same marchers are arrested for publically opposing genocide, I wonder who is annihilating these "cosseted freedoms".
July 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
On this day, 20 years since Jean Charles de Menezes was shot in the head by British police, I remember this entry to the TLS's 2008 Books of the Year.
As these same marchers are arrested for publically opposing genocide, I wonder who is annihilating these "cosseted freedoms".
As these same marchers are arrested for publically opposing genocide, I wonder who is annihilating these "cosseted freedoms".
Out next month from And Other Stories. www.andotherstories.org/dreaming-of-...
July 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Out next month from And Other Stories. www.andotherstories.org/dreaming-of-...
I may have taken this from the same field...
July 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I may have taken this from the same field...
Read the first line in a bookshop in Southsea in the Summer of 1989. One of those key moments in a reading life. The original title is Der Chinese des Schmerzes but Ralph Manheim's renaming is more appropriate.
July 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Read the first line in a bookshop in Southsea in the Summer of 1989. One of those key moments in a reading life. The original title is Der Chinese des Schmerzes but Ralph Manheim's renaming is more appropriate.
You may know this already, but when Tony Blair was PM, Jon Snow raised Iran's history with him. www.mohammadmossadegh.com/news/jon-snow/
June 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
You may know this already, but when Tony Blair was PM, Jon Snow raised Iran's history with him. www.mohammadmossadegh.com/news/jon-snow/
The graphic artist has legged it.
June 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The graphic artist has legged it.
Just got this in the post. You can probably guess why I ordered it. See fallowmedia.com
April 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Just got this in the post. You can probably guess why I ordered it. See fallowmedia.com
Today Summer was stuffed through my letterbox.
March 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Today Summer was stuffed through my letterbox.
Started re-reading this as soon as I'd finished it.
February 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Started re-reading this as soon as I'd finished it.
Turned a blind eye to the price because the chapter in the Paris Review was so good. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/08...
February 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Turned a blind eye to the price because the chapter in the Paris Review was so good. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/08...
After years of complaining that his essays on Handke and Bernhard remained untranslated, here they are, at last.
January 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
After years of complaining that his essays on Handke and Bernhard remained untranslated, here they are, at last.
For a short time in my student days I had a soft red pencil with which I underlined passages in books. I loved it. Then it disappeared and I was annoyed. Now I open books from that time and cringe. But perhaps there's something to be learned from such innocence.
January 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
For a short time in my student days I had a soft red pencil with which I underlined passages in books. I loved it. Then it disappeared and I was annoyed. Now I open books from that time and cringe. But perhaps there's something to be learned from such innocence.
Anthony, this reads like an AI-made post; that is, it doesn't read like you!
Theroux's My Secret History is a favourite novel of mine; have read it four times. Here's Jonathan Raban's excellent review.
Theroux's My Secret History is a favourite novel of mine; have read it four times. Here's Jonathan Raban's excellent review.
January 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Anthony, this reads like an AI-made post; that is, it doesn't read like you!
Theroux's My Secret History is a favourite novel of mine; have read it four times. Here's Jonathan Raban's excellent review.
Theroux's My Secret History is a favourite novel of mine; have read it four times. Here's Jonathan Raban's excellent review.
In view: the Spinnaker Tower, an aircraft carrier and a Roman fort.
January 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
In view: the Spinnaker Tower, an aircraft carrier and a Roman fort.
Mention of staring at a blank wall reminded me of this passage from Bernhard's 3 Days:
December 29, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Mention of staring at a blank wall reminded me of this passage from Bernhard's 3 Days: