Peter Kravitz
@peterkravitz.bsky.social
Couples, individual & trauma psychotherapist in Edinburgh. Climate grief, poetry relief.
Editor: The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Shakespeare for everything & nothing.
(And my Great Aunt Fanny ran The Vegetarian Hotel in the Catskills.)
Editor: The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Shakespeare for everything & nothing.
(And my Great Aunt Fanny ran The Vegetarian Hotel in the Catskills.)
A fine choice by Zinovy Zinik. Pop a copy of Greyhound in your loved one’s stocking. His TLS piece on the Russian translators of Dickens is a beauty
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
November 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A fine choice by Zinovy Zinik. Pop a copy of Greyhound in your loved one’s stocking. His TLS piece on the Russian translators of Dickens is a beauty
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
Today.
Edinburgh.
Muriel Spark.
The front page.
Photographed on 25th May 1960.
Edinburgh.
Muriel Spark.
The front page.
Photographed on 25th May 1960.
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Today.
Edinburgh.
Muriel Spark.
The front page.
Photographed on 25th May 1960.
Edinburgh.
Muriel Spark.
The front page.
Photographed on 25th May 1960.
RIP 16 October 1944 - 17 May 2025
May 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
RIP 16 October 1944 - 17 May 2025
And here in the Scottish Borders on 1st January 2025
January 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
And here in the Scottish Borders on 1st January 2025
“It was as though we were being trained to have low standards and small dreams for the future; to prop up the economy as labourers or die of indifference”
A cracker of an essay from photographer Johny Pitts on the Tate’s new exhibition: The 80s - Photographing Britain
A cracker of an essay from photographer Johny Pitts on the Tate’s new exhibition: The 80s - Photographing Britain
December 14, 2024 at 10:29 AM
“It was as though we were being trained to have low standards and small dreams for the future; to prop up the economy as labourers or die of indifference”
A cracker of an essay from photographer Johny Pitts on the Tate’s new exhibition: The 80s - Photographing Britain
A cracker of an essay from photographer Johny Pitts on the Tate’s new exhibition: The 80s - Photographing Britain
Ernest Lehman, screenwriter, born on this day in 1915. Interesting to see, below, the different titles his movies had in France. North By Northwest was his only ‘original’ screenplay but his adaptations were magnificent too.
December 8, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Ernest Lehman, screenwriter, born on this day in 1915. Interesting to see, below, the different titles his movies had in France. North By Northwest was his only ‘original’ screenplay but his adaptations were magnificent too.
Particularly good De Beauvoir pic
December 7, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Particularly good De Beauvoir pic
This week’s merch at the National Gallery’s Van Gogh exhibition…
December 7, 2024 at 8:38 AM
This week’s merch at the National Gallery’s Van Gogh exhibition…
Kate O’Brien, born on this day:
‘When I begin my first chapter I certainly have no idea where we’d be in the last. Novels arise to me out of reflections on people rather than seeing situations into which I might put people. My ideas go from the people first and get them into the situations. ‘
‘When I begin my first chapter I certainly have no idea where we’d be in the last. Novels arise to me out of reflections on people rather than seeing situations into which I might put people. My ideas go from the people first and get them into the situations. ‘
December 3, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Kate O’Brien, born on this day:
‘When I begin my first chapter I certainly have no idea where we’d be in the last. Novels arise to me out of reflections on people rather than seeing situations into which I might put people. My ideas go from the people first and get them into the situations. ‘
‘When I begin my first chapter I certainly have no idea where we’d be in the last. Novels arise to me out of reflections on people rather than seeing situations into which I might put people. My ideas go from the people first and get them into the situations. ‘
Until midnight tonight Edinburghuniversitypress.com have all their titles at 50% off, including the recently published letters of Nan Shepherd (to Jessie Kesson, Neil Gunn, Hugh MacDiarmid,
Helen B. Cruickshank, Agnes Mure Mackenzie…
Helen B. Cruickshank, Agnes Mure Mackenzie…
November 30, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Until midnight tonight Edinburghuniversitypress.com have all their titles at 50% off, including the recently published letters of Nan Shepherd (to Jessie Kesson, Neil Gunn, Hugh MacDiarmid,
Helen B. Cruickshank, Agnes Mure Mackenzie…
Helen B. Cruickshank, Agnes Mure Mackenzie…
Always a good time for a note from Virginia Woolf. This one to Lytton Strachey in 1925, from deep in the special collections of Smith College:
November 27, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Always a good time for a note from Virginia Woolf. This one to Lytton Strachey in 1925, from deep in the special collections of Smith College:
Nice point about observing/participating, a skill we need now more than ever. But what of the Tolkien -esque translation of Wieners’ journals into Middle English:
November 26, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Nice point about observing/participating, a skill we need now more than ever. But what of the Tolkien -esque translation of Wieners’ journals into Middle English:
The Greenock born, Cornwall dwelling poet WS Graham was born on this day in 1918.
This is from @becimay.bsky.social ‘s copy of his Collected Poems
This is from @becimay.bsky.social ‘s copy of his Collected Poems
November 22, 2024 at 7:17 PM
The Greenock born, Cornwall dwelling poet WS Graham was born on this day in 1918.
This is from @becimay.bsky.social ‘s copy of his Collected Poems
This is from @becimay.bsky.social ‘s copy of his Collected Poems
If not there’s always this kiosk which recently popped up in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
November 16, 2024 at 9:25 PM
If not there’s always this kiosk which recently popped up in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
Next to me in a queue in Edinburgh. I’m off to look up Nancy Wake…
November 16, 2024 at 7:57 AM
Next to me in a queue in Edinburgh. I’m off to look up Nancy Wake…
And from the marvel that is David Milch (read his fine memoir Life’s Work)…
November 16, 2024 at 7:37 AM
And from the marvel that is David Milch (read his fine memoir Life’s Work)…
Just off the High Street, Edinburgh
November 15, 2024 at 8:55 AM
Just off the High Street, Edinburgh
Secret message in this weekend's glass-hire box
November 5, 2023 at 10:28 AM
Secret message in this weekend's glass-hire box