Entries by anne

Nassim N Taleb on the Source of All Blunders

photo: Marcos Takamatsu I’m so excited. Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s follow-up to The Black Swan is now available in the UK ? entitled Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don’t Understand. My hardback copy is winging its way to me. Hardback? Yes, I …

Manchester: Climate Change Winner or Loser?

Ah! It would be lovely, wouldn’t it ? if Manchester and the north west of England emerged as the new Florence and Tuscany of Europe? Just imagine cypress trees and vineyards scattered among the Pennine foothills and the Cheshire Gap. In A Calcul…

In praise of novels without neat conclusions

via guardian.co.uk Here’s a great article in today’s Guardian Books Blog by Lee Rourke. I couldn’t agree more and I love novels with fractured narratives. Here’s one point that Lee makes that I particularly like: Life isn’t like the narratives tha…

Rethinking Em-Dashes and Other Punctuation Malarky

Six pages into my manuscript, for the final (absolutely final) read-through before e-publication, I decided to check whether em-dashes require character spaces. Here’s the two lines of dialogue that prompted this check: ?You were worried. I wasn?t…