As a child, she was frail, thin, small, but a combination of illness and medication distorted her natural shape. For much of her life Mantel has felt she is inhabiting a stranger’s body. She looks in the mirror and can, … Read more →
I think this is how you live as a writer. You wake up with some uncomfortable thought and instead of dismissing it, like a normal person, you find yourself indulging it. Sophie Elmhirst: The unquiet mind of Hilary Mantel, via … Read more →
It’s easy for most of us around these parts to forget how badly technology still works for so many people. This is supposed to be the best we have today: an iPad, a routine OS update, an Apple Store, an … Read more →
Ah! Science fiction, science fiction. I’ve loved it since its birth. I’ve read it all my life, off and on, with excitement, with joy, sometimes with sorrow. Here’s a twelve-year-old kid, hungry for ideas and imagination, borrowing fairy tale collections … Read more →
Pour la voir en grand : A geological timescale for Creationists. Via io9. J’aime. Sur le même sujet : Le créationnisme en un mot !