I started noticing them two years ago, in the summer of 2009. They stood in groups of two or three along the promenade of the…
And the Winner is… John Phillips of London, New York, Paris, Helsinki … This guy gets around and he came up with this stellar plan…
Win a copy of one of my books (your choice which)! All you have to do is… Come up with the plan that will get…
Nanni Moretti’s Habemus Papam, an excellent, subtle and at times humorous film about a freshly elected pope – named Melville ma foi! – who undergoes…
Here is my father’s breakfast: – Toast slathered in I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter “butter” – A side of Egg Beaters – Coffee with…
Inevitably children will ask about how babies are made and my feeling is you can sense when your child is ready for the facts. When…
Who are you writing for? I was asked this question recently by a poet friend from Brooklyn and it caught me by surprise: I mumbled…
The Baby of Belleville is out in paperback! And has been selected for Waterstone’s Summer Reading 3 for 2 promotion. Go, Baby, go! Here’s a…
Sitting at the Moroccan restaurant’s terrace on the Abu Tig Marina, we, the El Gouna residency fellows, became the captive audience of a Karaoke concert. …
The Bluest Sea One of the first questions a visitor to the Red Sea ponders upon is its curious appellation: why “Red” when the sea’s…