Category Archives: Reading

Apostrophegeddon

By tom | Published: 07/05/2013

Writing is not about rules, but communicating ideas. Any company that rejects a job application because of a misplaced apostrophe is barking up the wrong tree. The most original thinkers I work with struggle to tie their shoelaces.

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A Christmas Cracker

By 66000 | Published: 09/12/2012

Rochester House, home for The Story Museum, was a magnet for roving Tale Tellers, Yarn Spinners and Gossip Mongers who arrived from far and wide to feed off the Oxford Gyre; the storytelling energy that has made the city of dreaming spires such a Mecca for writers.

Also posted in Authors, Books, Education, Families, Free speech, Health, History, Poetry, Storytelling, Writing | Tagged imagination, lewis caroll, narrative, oxford, stories, story, story museum, storyloom, ted dewan, the oxford story museum, yarns | 6 Responses

Whale of a time

By tim | Published: 13/11/2012

Moby Dick: Big Read presents an online version of Melville’s book, with each chapter read aloud and accompanied by a painting, drawing or photograph.

Also posted in Attention span, Authors, Books, Storytelling, Tone of voice, Writing | Tagged 66000, listenng, literature, moby dick, Moby Dick: Big Read, novels, online, reading, Writing | 10 Responses

Words in the airways

By Mike | Published: 17/10/2012

From a glowing Bakelite wireless in the distant 1950s to the latest digital receiver, my ears have experienced an onslaught of millions of multi-layered words.

Also posted in Art, Authors, Education, Families, Free speech, History, Poetry, Storytelling, Travel, Writing | Tagged 66000milesperhour.com, alan dein, bbc, language, mike dempsey, radio, ray gosling, studs terkel, words, Writing | 9 Responses

Rubbish story

By Andy | Published: 09/10/2012

For the past few years, I’ve collected handwritten notes that have been abandoned on London’s streets. Now a new form of writing is born – ‘litterature’

Also posted in 26, Art, Design, Letters, London, Poetry, Storytelling, Writing | Tagged 26, andy hayes, Art, Design, found, free word centre, language, notes, street, throwaway lines, Writing | 5 Responses

Noisy perfection

By tom | Published: 26/09/2012

I am sitting in the Bodleian Library with Dr Christopher Fletcher, a Fellow of Exeter College, member of the English Faculty and Keeper of Special Collections. On the table between us is a yellowing manuscript of translucent pages inscribed with a neat copperplate script in brown ink. It is the autograph draft manuscript of The [...]

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Ugly truths

By tim | Published: 12/07/2012

It’s not easy writing about global conspiracy on a poster. You have to capture the essence of a worldwide system of corruption in text a passer-by can digest swiftly. This piece – attached to a traffic light by Trafalgar Square in London – makes an ambitious effort to cover the necessary ground while the paused [...]

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The Gentle Author of Spitalfields Life

By tim | Published: 02/02/2012

‘In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London.’ With these words the Spitalfields Life blog was born, back in August 2009.