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Does anyone else remember….

When wasting time at work involved reading the newspaper and writing letters? White tennis balls? Why you came upstairs? Where you were when Kennedy was shot? Having to hang your clothes in the shower to get rid of the cigarette smell? The first time The New Yorker printed a photograph? When AIDs was a death [...]

New Shoes

September means just one thing in my stunted little brain, and that’s the first day of school. Never mind that I’ve been out of school and/or university for thirty plus years. Summer is for swimming in the sea and going barefoot and reading books. September is for new shoes and maybe a new skirt and sweater, [...]

Scudding Clouds

My friend Myra went on a rampage yesterday. (This should explain to most people why she’s my friend, one of my most beloved, as it happens.) “I HATE THEM!” she shrieked, as various teenagers looked on contemptuously. “WHAT DOES SCUDDING EVEN MEAN?” We double checked, just in case scudding did not, in fact, mean moving along [...]

Olympic afterthoughts.

Back in the 90s when I travelled to Nepal, I was struck most forcefully by the faces of the Nepali people — I had never seen such open, sincere smiles on so many people in my life. It looked different from what I saw every day on the streets of New York or London. Completely [...]

Too Many Shades of Grey

I’m not even going to take five minutes out of my rich and busy literary life to google how many copies of this feeble illiterate soft-porn political/socio-sexual travesty have actually been sold, but I do have a few observations on the phenomenon. 1. As anyone with any taste at all (readers, search your souls) knows, [...]

Olympic fever

I applied for tickets in the first round and got what I wanted, so I was never one of the naysayers. And yes, it’s costing a fortune, and was going to snarl up London traffic forever (it didn’t, really) and make us a target for every terrorist loony on earth (it hasn’t, so far at [...]

I’m visiting the How I Live Now film set on Monday August 13th. Want to come?

If you’re between 13 and 19 (or can forge ID that proves you’re much older/younger than you really are) here’s your big chance to win a visit to the film set of How I Live Now. You’ll meet Saoirse Ronan and find out exactly how exciting, difficult (and sometimes unglamorous) movie-making is, and I’ll be there too, [...]

Pink Gun

This is a post for all of those people out there who daily google “pink gun” and get my blog, because I once used a picture of a pink gun to make a point about something or other, probably feminism or why it’s important to let women decide if they want to have abortions, or [...]

EXCITING NEW MATCHMAKING PROJECT

Anyone who knows me well realizes that although I have ended up a writer, I have always dreamt of being a matchmaker. There is no doubt in my mind that this is a throwback to some ancient great-great-great-grandmother from the shtetl who was a professional matchmaker, and who herself got up to a bit of [...]

First picture of Saoirse Ronan on the set of How I Live Now.

  I just want my loyal fans to know HOW up on latest fashions I am. Oh yes. When I saw Saoirse Ronan on set in this amazing cardigan, I said to myself, “Self, that is not the sort of everyday item one picks up on Oxford Street here in provincial old London, oh noooooo.  That [...]