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I heard today that DeAgostini have offered to publish Something of the Night in Italy, and that the excellent Claudio Silipigni is once again to be my ‘translator’, just as he was for ‘The Longest Crawl’. I couldn’t be more pleased. It says ‘translator’ in the book, but, as I can’t speak a word of Italian, Claudio is really my co-author. I really enjoyed . . . → Read More: Qualcosa della notte… (according to Babel Fish, anyway)  The new book is out. I’ve always done an introduction to the books, and posted them on this site; this is a first pass, really. I got the idea for a book about the night in 2008, and envisaged taking a similar approach to the one I took in Parallel Lines and The Longest Crawl. This is to say, I’d travel and I’d do . . . → Read More: Something of the Night. We drove to Cambridge yesterday to pick up some stuff, and on the way I bought the Radio Times and i, both of which had favouable things to say about the psycho-geography show on Radio Three. When we got home,there was a parcel waiting, with my first copy of ‘Something of the Night’ inside. Stayed up till much too late, while I read bits . . . → Read More: Good weekend so far, touch wood. Never been that bothered about the Zep, and I could do with some advice from those who were down with the whole big-haired squeeky voiced cod-Crowleyian ting. In m’new book, ‘Something of the Night’, I write quite a bit about music, and I’m trying to put together a Spotify playlist of all the songs I mention, and also a representative track from all the . . . → Read More: The Zep and I I was talking to my editor today about the proofs of ‘Something of The Night.’ ‘The proof reader,’ he said to me, ‘has an issue with the phrase ‘putative tit rub.’ ‘Oh?’ I said. ‘What’s the problem?’ ‘Well, he says he thinks you’ve misused ‘putative.’ He says that it means, ‘commonly regarded as being”. He thinks ‘anticipated’ would be better.’ ‘Really?’ I said, reaching . . . → Read More: Putative tit rub |
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