Monthly Archives: June 2010
Sitting Still I: Paradoxical Relaxation — from Tim Parks
Exhausted by years of fruitless attempts to treat a battery of abdominal pains and urinary disorders with conventional medicine, Tim Parks tries a relaxation cure described in a book discovered on the net. He has the impression he is clutching at straws. Silence. More or less. How strange, I thought, after the fourth or fifth […]
Writers: Tim Parks
Good-bye, David Markson
I am heartbroken to learn of the death of the great David Markson. Like many before me, I was drawn to Markson through a strange attraction exerted by a pile of austere paperbacks on the edge of a table at the Strand. I bought the mysterious book and, transported and enchanted, I contrived to meet […]
Writers: Ann Kjellberg, David Markson