bROWSE BY TOPIC
PUBLISHING IN GENERAL
Publishers: no better than fund managers? - a better way of picking winners
Confessions of a sexist reader - why haven't I read more books by women?
E-books: shaking up publishing, but not content? - why haven't ebooks prompted authors to explore non-linear narrative etc?
Publishing: the hedge fund approach - can algorithms pick out which books will succeed?
The curse of OCR - the sheer f*ing laziness of publishers when it comes to ebooks
Falling down the cracks in the genre map - on publishers' obsession with genre
theatre reviews
"Patriots" by Peter Morgan - a play about Putin, Berezovsky and Abramovich
"User not found" by Dante or Die - death and digital legacy
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" - adaptation of the Mark Haddon novel
technology, AI etc
Google ate my story! - self-published fiction as AI training data
Sci-fi, litfic and AI - Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Louisa Hall and Ted Chiang
Publishing: the hedge fund approach - can algorithms pick out which books will succeed?
Federov's dust - technology, religious beliefs and "revenge effects"
COVID & chronic fatigue
3 posts on my experience of Chronic Fatigue and similarities with Long COVID:
WHAT TO READ NEXT
Book recommendation sites - whichbook.net, bookbag.co.uk, recommendmeabook.com
Librarything - better than Goodreads? Or maybe just more manageable...
Free fiction review - my pick of the best free fiction by self-published authors
brexit
I wrote a lot of nerdy stuff about Brexit - in hindsight, here are the most interesting ones:
Review of All Out War by Tim Shipman - why did Leave win? And what does Shipman get wrong?
Inselaffen! - thoughts on the referendum result
POLITICS
The Greek bailout - review of Adults in the Room by Yannis Varoufakis
The end justifies the means: a bad motto to live by - thoughts on the 2019 election
Still the hardest word - on Boris Johnson's resignation