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The Talented Miss Highsmith
Publication: New York Times
Patricia Highsmith said of herself, 'I am always in love...' . Yet at her memorial service in Tegna, Switzerland, in 1995, there were no lovers from the past, and there was no lover to mourn her in the present.
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Polar Bear
Publication: The Guardian
I am your inner polar bear. Find me before it's too late.
There's a photograph of me rafting an iceberg, the melted sea all around, the sea that should have been solid.
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On neighbourhood sharing in 1960s Accrington
Publication: The Guardian
My Christmas begins at 3pm on Christmas Eve when I turn on Radio Four to hear the Festival of Carols and Nine Lessons. At the same time I pour the pink champagne. Already on the plate is black bread and wild smoked salmon. The colours are as good as the taste.
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Why I adore the night
Publication: The Guardian
It's human to want light and warmth - our pagan ancestors had a calendar of fire-festivals, and God's first recorded words, according to the Hebrew Bible are 'Let there be light.'
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Carbon Living
Publication: Country Life
I have just signed up to the Guardian 10/10 campaign - to personally reduce my carbon footprint by 10% by next September. I felt pretty smug about rarely using a tumble drier - in the country we just hang our clothes outside, or throw them on top of the AGA, right? Yes I know my AGA needs a bit of justification - but it is an electric one, and I am on the green tariff - and I have given up my Porsche - well, OK, it blew up in Burford, but anyway,
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OUTSIDE OF A DOG. Rick Gekoski, published by Constable. Reviewed by JW in Times, August 23 2009.
Publication: The Times : Books
Rick Gekoski has spent his life travelling by book. He set out as a little boy with Doctor Seuss's Horton Hatches The Egg, and found there his life-long love of things that are big, (Horton is an elephant), as well as a better-than-Freud way to read his parents' marriage: Horton is reliable, wiling and patient, if a little too placid. Mayzie is the flighty bird who would rather be on the coast than egg-brooding in a tree. 'My father was that sort of elephant, and my mother was that sort of bird.'
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House Restoration: The Joy of Wrecks
Publication: The Times
Half a million pounds for a crumbling Cotswold cottage with no roof and only a few walls is a dream come true for some. Sometimes I think I was a Viking in a past life.
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CAN YOU MOVE DIAGONALLY? Jeanette Winterson interviews Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy
Publication: The Times : Books
Carol Ann Duffy is the nation's favourite poet after Shakespeare. 'Poetry is our national art', she tells me in her garden outside Manchester. Then she says, 'I've got bird shit on my jumper.' She gets up to find a cloth and turns back: 'Shall we have a glass of champagne?'
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'The Moon was the perfect surface for a rewrite'
Publication: The Times
In 1955 Walt Disney showed a private screening of his new film Man and the Moon to President Eisenhower and his generals at the Pentagon. Three months later the USA announced that they would be sending a satellite into space.
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An exploration of seminal novelist Italo Calvino, through his writing
Publication: The Times : Books
The wild inventions of the Italian writer are the wellspring of 21st-century fiction
At the end of Calvino's novella The Baron in the Trees, Guido, who travels only from tree to tree, and never comes down from the world he prefers to the world that presses its claims, finds himself near death. A host of noisome courtiers and curious peasants swarm under the canopy of the forest, waiting for him to submit to gravity's insistence.
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