What an odd belated Christmas present.
I’ve just received transcripts of two reviews of The Book, that appeared in Australian newspapers when it was published there last month.
I’m not really sure what to do with them, so here they are. The first seven words of the first para of the Age review basically sum up my [...]

At this exact time last year, drowning in deadline hell for the book, I wrote the post below.
An amazing number of things have changed in the intervening weeks and months, and in so many ways I’m an an entirely different person. And yet, reading it back, sitting at the very same desk in my parents’ [...]

This week’s column is online.

With Mr and Mrs 1938 Media at Twinterval, taken by Parky.

The rest, on Flickr

This week’s column is now online. Except it’s not really.
Long story short, I’m in Iceland.

This was the first draft of my Guardian column this week, before I found out that Charles had already written a piece about the Arrington/LeMeur spat. Shame to waste it…
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In April 1971, martial law was declared in Saigon.
The city had fallen to the North Vietnamese and Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger had announced [...]

Next task: work out how to change the static frame on Vimeo.

Hallo from Iceland from Paul Carr on Vimeo.

It’s sad, but utterly fitting that George W. Bush’s presidency should be bookended with attacks by a pretzel and a pair of shoes.
I’ve been work displacing amusing myself on Twitter this evening by trying to come up with a title for the film dramatisation of today’s brutal attack. This was prompted by Alex Tew’s exquisite [...]