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You can listen again to my radio series, View from a Shark, and catch the one-off live broadcast from Tate Modern, Sharks: New Worlds, new words, by clicking through here. Continue reading I repeat, two times
You can listen again to my radio series, View from a Shark, and catch the one-off live broadcast from Tate Modern, Sharks: New Worlds, new words, by clicking through here. Continue reading I repeat, two times
Photographer Robert Jackson won a Pulitzer Prize for his photo of Lee Harvey Oswald being shot, on 25thNov 1963. In the picture, Oswald is accompanied by and handcuffed to detective Jim Leavelle, who, in a pale suit and hat, glares at the assassin. James Leavelle, detective, born 23 Aug 1920, died 29 Aug 2019. Continue reading Leavelle
Testing, testing, I’m going to be broadcasting on the radio. Melissa McCarthy’s View from a Shark is on Resonance 104.4 FM from Monday 16thSept 2019 at 6:15pm. Go via the link to listen to all episodes so far. Continue reading Radio on
Here’s Andy Martin writing about rejuvenation of the coral reefs, and cleverly slipping in a big-up for Sharks, Death, Surfers: An Illustrated Companion. Continue reading name-checking
Syndicated report on this Sharks vs Vampires event from 29th May 2019. Continue reading the back pages
Peggy Lipton, born 30 August 1946, died 11 May 2019, actor. Mother of the comparably-gorgeous Rashida Jones. “He was a great kisser but that was about it,” said Lipton of her one-time boyfriend Elvis Presley. I was watching Twin Peaks: the Return the other night on my computer, and the end credits rolled, as they do, listing the names of the actors who had appeared in … Continue reading Peggy Lipton
So, fair! (and foul a day I have not seen, as Macbeth almost says.*) Miss Read: the Berlin art book fair takes place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, on 3, 4 and 5th May 2019. Miss Read is: “dedicated to building community and creating a public meeting place for discourse around artists’ books, conceptual publications and publishing as practice.” I’ll be there, on … Continue reading art book fairs