I was very privileged to be asked to contribute to this year’s Bygone Bureau list alongside some very fine bloggers. Worth a read, even if I cheated: I was utterly incapable of producing a single decent blog from 2011. It’s Nice That? Nope, started in 2007. Bobulate? Ancient, born in 2001. That’s when it struck me: I have 23 folders [...]

by J. D. Salinger Reprinted in memory of Salinger. There were ninety-seven New York advertising men in the hotel, and, the way they were monopolizing the long-distance lines, the girl in 507 had to wait from noon till almost two-thirty to get her call through. She used the time, though. She read an article in [...]

A lovely poem suggested to me, after a similar complaint. Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly, Asleep on the black trunk, blowing like a leaf in green shadow. Down the ravine behind the empty house, The cowbells follow one another Into [...]

I posted a selection of pages from my friend, Derrick Mosley’s first book, The Meadowcroft Ambiguities, because he would never do it himself. It’s impossible to find and the only way you might be able to get a copy is to contact Derrick through me (but I make no promises).