I've half-decided take a slightly new approach with this blog: to post longer, more considered pieces less often. Which explains the recent silence. I'm working on something about Chris Petit's film Content - which screened on More4 the other week (it was on 4oD, but I think it's gone now) and may come to cinemas soon - and leftist moroseness (morosity?).
In the meantime, if you're ever thinking there's not enough time to get things done, read this article on David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, who in the last year has written a 672-page book on Obama whilst doing his day-job. Here's a little snippet:
"During the year he spent on “The Bridge,” he rose at 5:30 a.m. to write and often stayed up past midnight, but rarely discussed the book at work. “He got up really early, went back to work after dinner with the kids, and took no weekends off and no vacation for more than a year,” said Esther B. Fein, his wife, in an e-mail message."
Me
- Mark
- I am writing a PhD at the University of Glasgow entitled "The Poetics of Time in Contemporary Literature". My writing has been published in Type Review, Dancehall, Puffin Review and TheState. I review books for Gutter and The List. I am also an editor and reviewer at the Glasgow Review of Books.
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