Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Is your writing true to yourself?
Reading A Man in Love, volume two of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle, I’m struck by how his fidelity to describing life’s minutiae lends credibility to his descriptions of more important things. If he can be so reliable in his description of doing the washing up, then we instinctively trust his truth telling about more important events. Knausgaard’s candour is magnificent. He…
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What I read in 2014: autobiography and other
Here are some more books I read in 2014. Autobiography 36 Views of Mount Fuji, Cathy N Davidson. My first book of the year, started on the plane back from Japan after a family holiday. Cathy N Davidson is an American Academic, and here describes three long stays in Japan and the cultural differences she found there.…
36 Views of Mount Fuji, A death in the family, Cathy N. Davidson, Elie Wiesel, Experience, Fictions, I know why the caged bird sings, Jorge Luis Borges, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Mark Ellen, Martin Amis, Matt Groening, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Maya Angelou, Night, On Writing, Rock Stars Ate My Life, Stephen King, The Big Book of Hell, The World of Perception
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 