lit
A top ten list and why I like Neil Gaiman
I found this over at metafilter the other day.
“Ten rules for writing fiction… we asked authors for their personal dos and don’ts”, the Guardian article states. Normally something I would flee from — or at least make merciless fun of. However, there were some gems. And the author which stood out most to me is [...]
The nightly betrayal of reason. Nabokov on sleep
On the train to Edinburgh the other day, I was reading Nabokov’s autobiography, Speak, Memory. His description of his troubles falling asleep really grabbed my interest:
“All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper… Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world. It is a mental torture I find debasing… I simply cannot get [...]