And so my 'The Annotated Bruce Springsteen's Thunder Road' project begins... (from Ross Macdonald's The Drowning Pool).

Honoured to appear in the third and (sadly) final edition of Backstory magazine. It's a beautiful publication, so well worth getting hold of a copy (at their website or in store).

Henry Miller prefacing H. E. Bates surely has to be one of the unlikelier literary collaborations.

Joni Mitchell got the idea for Both Sides Now from Henderson the Rain King!?!

I don't quite know how the library of David Lodge has ended up in my local charity shop, but I'm here for it.

MacLaverty and Malamud are very near bookshelf-neighbours, so yes, there may at the very least be some kind of osmotic influence there (that's how it works, right?)

Rediscovering this beauty. One of the most immaculate pop albums ever made - by surely one of the least cool artists.

Having congratulated myself for resisting these the other day, I returned to the same shop this morning to find them still for sale. There was only one outcome. Goodbye all other reading projects!