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November 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 188 Go To New York

Whatever I write Won’t necessarily make any sense I wouldn’t lie to you And I didn’t make it last week For whatever reason No one really noticed and I couldn’t explain There wasn’t anyone else there to blame Since then we travelled south and back And had our little adventures I found myself playing the […]

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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” […]

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October 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Whistlin’ Dixie

You were there and I was here and the band was singing a song about the night they drove ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­________ somewhere or somehow and the people were singing ­­­­­­­­­­­­______ something else… He was there which was why you weren’t here and The Band kept singing, they went Na, la, na, la, na na, na na, […]