This is just to say
Read the original poem here
Red roman sandals for the year of the rabbit
Red Shoes by The Throwing Muses
Thanks, Emma!
Confined spaces
The yellow bobble heads jumped on the train at the Kingsland station. There was somebody filming – I think it had to do with rugby. In the next carriage, a gaggle of blue-wigged men with green face paint jumped on and off until the whistle blew for Morningside.
Chicken, egg, fact, fiction
Talking with Darth Vader
Unread books
According to Wikipedia I have this completely wrong – Elizabeth von Arnim was born in Australia, and moved to England at the age of three. But that’s not the impression Katie Roiphe gave me – Roiphe said she was born in New Zealand, and her parents brought her to Europe to marry her off at the age of 23. It must be so confusing being a biographer.
Ida Baker in the ecomist
Baguette
The feeling
Vanderlye Crybaby Geeks by The National
On Diana Athill
Despite my relentless analysis, I really enjoyed the gig.
LET ME BE FRANK 