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January 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: Notes From Various TED. Talks

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Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Notes, Notes From Various TED. Talks, Poem, Poetry, Prose, Short Story, Short Story: Notes From Various TED. Talks, Ted, Ted Bundy, Ted Danson, Ted DiBiase, Ted Nugent, Ted Talks, Ted Turner, TEDs, The TED Talks ·

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July 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Joan Didion: South and West

South and West: From a Notebook Joan Didion Knopf; First Edition edition “We tell ourselves stories in order to live”, Didion famously wrote. Here you could imagine a wag in her publisher’s office suggesting “We sell stories in order to make a living” – for this slim volume, this set of notes “from a notebook” […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Book, Book Review, Essays, Joan Didion, Joan Didion: South and West, Knopf, New Orleans, Non-FIction, Notebook, Notes, Patty Hearst, Road Trip, San Francisco, Slim Volume, South, South and West: From a Notebook, Travel, Travel Writing, West ·

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April 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Being There: My Liner Notes for ‘Making Baby Float’

I was there. Watching the concert. And I couldn’t believe how good it was – now in some sense I had a tip-off. I knew Hannah Griffin was a great singer, I knew Norman Meehan was a thoughtful and gifted musician/arranger/composer and I knew the source material was top-shelf. The other names in the band […]
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