Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

Reflections on literature * Musings on everyday life * Book reviews * Experiments in creative nonfiction writing * Humour

A general pot pourri to get the week off to an interesting, humorous and possibly even useful start

OuLiPo is a French writing movement that uses constraints to develop new writing.

The epistolary papers: O Reader, never let it be said that we don’t think of you. Not wishing you get lost in the myriad letters that Rebecca and I have exchanged on this platform (well, ok, not exactly myriads, but at least five or six), I have created this index, which will be pinned to the top of my ‘stack, and updated as the occasion demands.

Reviews of books, exhibitions and other stuff

Quick tips for readers and writers

Articles about people who have influenced me, like teachers, writers, musicians and so on. I hope some of them will prove useful to you too.

Worthy (I hope) cogitations

Odd things I've seen or heard

Occasional additional 'experiments', sometimes with commentary about how I expedited them.

The same story told in umpteen different ways.

Books, articles, music or anything else I feel like commenting on.

Short-form writing

How I wrote some of my posts

Not nonfiction