The (Quiet) Death of a Legendary Parisian Bookstore 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ When it was announced that the legendary bookshop Le Pont Traversé would definitely close down on the 31st of December in Paris, many French TV stations put in phone calls and tried to convince Josée Comte-Béalu to do a filmed interview. She refused every single one of them.
Category: Links
Posted on December 22, 2019
Meera Sodha’s Christmas recipe for vegan achari brussels sprout curry — link 🔗
Posted on December 17, 2019
Divine inspiration: rescuing run-down churches – a photo essay — link to The Guardian 🔗
Posted on December 16, 2019
Anna Karina: an actor of easy charm and grace whose presence radiated from the screen — link to The Guardian 🔗 🎥
Posted on December 11, 2019
Fascism: I sometimes fear… — link to a poem by Michael Rosen 🔗
Posted on December 9, 2019
Labour’s Manifesto is fit for purpose. So, why are the middle classes so hostile to it? – link at The New Statesman 🔗
Posted on December 2, 2019
Some really interesting photographs in this collection.
>In the remains of a bombed-out Soviet darkroom, hundreds of rolls of film were discovered rotting among the rubble by the photojournalist Samuel Eder earlier this year.
Posted on November 29, 2019
Brilliant live performance by Fat White Family at The Tramshed, Cardiff on Wednesday 22nd November. 🎵
Interesting recent interview with the band – link 🔗
Posted on November 29, 2019
Posted on November 28, 2019
William Blake, poet and printmaker, was born #OnThisDay 1757 BBC In Our Time