• Are you that bird? Am I that bird? Perhaps one day?

    I love this picture taken by the graphomaniac bookworm; it is so serene, so mysterious. “Some street in Belfast. I don’t know the name. I just know that it was during the Easter break, in 2004, and that I was…

  • Nowhere Boy

    Aaron Johnson is handsome (and young!). We watched Sam Taylor-Wood’s Nowhere Boy, a film about the young John Lennon, played rather convincingly, I must say, by Aaron Johnson. However, he is certainly not as good as Kristin Scott Thomas, who…

  • I guessed it right, after two tries

    Langham Place The translator sent me this picture – I like how the daylight comes through the squared windows. ––

  • CHA — Call for Submissions — Fourth Anniversary Issue

    – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for its November 2011 issue (Issue #15). Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can be found here. Deadline: 15 September, 2011.…

  • Measurements: Sketches from Hong Kong

    UPDATED in January 2011: Measurements: Sketches from Hong Kong is now available from Paddyfield.  –– Measurements: Sketches from Hong KongEds. Melanie Ho & Simon OvertonHong Kong Writers Circle – We are very happy to say that Hong Kong Writers Circle‘s…

  • What is gossip?

    The answer can be found in Doubt, the 2008 film adaptation of the John Patrick Shanley’s stage play Doubt: A Parable, which won a Pulitzer Prize: A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew…

  • Revisiting "For Godot"

    In Fall 2008, Stephen McLaughlin and Jim Carpenter edited an anthology (3785 pages) featuring 3164 poets. McLaughlin and Carpenter did not ask any of the writers for permission to print their works. In fact, the poems attributed to the individual…

  • Rumjhum Biswas in Every Day Poets

    – Rumjhum Biswas’s poem “List of Dos and Don’ts for the School Reunion” is now featured at Every Day Poets. Read it here. – – Rumjhum Biswas’s poem “Bones” was published in issue #12 of Cha. The piece has been nominated for…

  • Love & Other Drugs

    Love & Other Drugs – Last night we went to watch Love & Other Drugs in Covent Garden. Thank you, E, for the generosity! On the film: Anne, you are no Kate Winslet or Penelope Cruz (with reference to her own…

  • Victoria

    The historian sent me this picture and I love it, for obvious reasons.