As part of an ongoing project with Faber & Faber, Beak is using its labels to exhibit the work of some of the publisher’s writers. The Lost Folk (5% ABV) is a DDH pale ‘guest-edited by the artist, writer, and curator Lally Macbeth. The label on the beer can peels back to reveal an extract from her book, The Lost Folk. She […] The post Unique label for Faber & Faber collaboration first appeared on Beer Today. The post Unique label for Faber & Faber collaboration appeared first on ...| Beer Today
An interview with poet Bernard O'Donoghue about his latest collection, "Anchorage."| Chicago Review of Books
#368: What had I imagined? Time as a merry-go-round one could jump on and off? The year as a stream running underneath my eighteenth of November? As it turns out, both Tara Selter and I got a little obsessive about the whole Roman coin thing in On the Calculation of Volume II. On the very … Continue reading On the Calculation of Volume II | Solvej Balle| This Reading Life
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York. I’m stupid about executions. The idea of being electrocuted m…| This Reading Life
A gold bar is deceptively heavy. Four hundred troy ounces, about 12.5 kilograms, of ultra-high-purity gold formed into an ingot – a sort of slender brick crossed with a pyramid. The gold bar …| This Reading Life
I read some quality books in May and June, despite May not starting on a great note (a viral fever during the first half completely sapped my energy and I could barely read). Persephone emerged as the dominant publisher as I read three books (two novels and a short story collection) from their wonderful catalogue.…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
I have, since encountering the work of Charlotte Armstrong, developed a newfound appreciation for the novel of suspense. And so when Kate at Cross-Examining Crime mentioned that The Hours Before Dawn (1958) by Celia Fremlin was among her favourite debuts in the genre, I was willing to put my scepticism aside — Kate and I … Continue reading #1296: The Hours Before Dawn (1958) by Celia Fremlin| The Invisible Event
Tall and sharp at fifty-two, Campbell Flynn was a tinderbox in a Savile Row suit, a man who believed his childhood was so far behind him that all its threats had vanished. He had secrets and troubl…| This Reading Life