Well, we’ve reached Chapter 8 in the re-reading of The Wind in the Willows (I already mentioned it here and here), and Chapter 8 is where we see Toad’s misadventures reaching a peak of misery: the rascal has been put in prison where he laments his bad fate, he gets into the good graces of […]
My main character is still waiting for that answer, in case you’re wondering. Jonathan Harker, however, seems to be losing his marbles. —God preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced. Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past. Whilst I live on here there is but one thing to hope […]
The novel I’m working on takes place throughout May and June 1702, aside from a bunch of flash-backs, so I’ve been posting on my Patreon some teasers of what happens there day by day. There are some parallels with Bram Stoker’s Dracula, some of them intentional and some of them completely fortuitous. Nothing happens in […]
I’ve been reading a splendid and passionate book on the God Pan by Paul Robichaud, and it seems to be perfectly on point with the collective re-reading of The Wind in the Willows we’re doing on Twitter with a group of people. As you might remember, there’s one particular chapter I’m particularly fond of – […]
Well, I’ve joined a delightful group of people on Twitter and we’re engaged in a read-along of The Wind in the Willows. As you know, it’s one of my favourite books of all time, and a couple of years ago I produced some of my best recent articles surrounding my favourite chapters. We’ve now reached […]
I wanted to do this since last year, but I was waiting for them to do their “take one, gift one” promotion as one of my friends was interested in this as well, so on Cyber Monday I subscribed to the Masterclass platform and, of course, the first course I jumped on was Neil Gaiman’s […]
Throwback from my Patreon: you can read the original article here. As some of you know, I was finally able to close a deal with a Yoruba cultural association which will act as a consultant for my novel. As such, last week I was honing the final set of questions to submit them, and […]
Are you ready for a Norwegian Christmas tale featuring trolls, beheadings and two flowers? Tatterhood is another tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, although it never saw its way into Andrew Lang’s collections, and it’s weird, creepy and unsettling, but I also find it extraordinarily charming and has a really nice ending, […]
La volpe che amava i libri è un po’ così: contraddittorio e dolce, delicato e sferzante, straordinariamente intenso a momenti mentre, in altri sembra fermarsi a pensare insieme a noi, proprio come un amico seduto accanto al fuoco. Così scrivevo, un anno scarso da oggi, quando compilavo un’approssimata recensione del best-seller di Nicola Pesce, gentiluomo […]
The Shadow Bride is a poem by J.R.R. Tolkien included in the little-known poetry collection The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. We take a look at it today on my Patreon, alongside some possible inspiration.