Badaude

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Ba'daude (nf); a person given to idle observation of everything with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler.

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May Day Poster

I've had a few requests for copies of my Oxford May Day poster, which has been all over Oxford bus stops during the last month or so. I can't get hold of original posters at this size, but am...

May 14, 2013 Like

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Necessarily Fiction?

The last part of my (ish) for internet writing as writer-in-residence at Necessary Fiction. "I am more than painfully conscious that this is my last post for Necessary Fiction, and on a bank...

Mar 31, 2013 Like

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More MANIFESTO

...at Necesssary Fiction where I am writer in residence this month. I must have been thinking about Easter because a lot of fluffy chicks & stuff seem to have crept into this post later on. Find...

Mar 28, 2013 Like

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I'm taking a dérive from my at Necessary Fiction... "The internet picks at itself. Online I’m no exception. It’s extraordinary what you can find in your ear, in the corner of your eye: it’s amazing...

Mar 22, 2013 Like

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Tentative d'infographer un Petit-déj

I had fun working out the perfect formula for breakfast for the London Review of Breakfasts. (The fact that I wrote it in Paris is neither here nor there.) Here's an excerpt - if you'd like to find...

Mar 21, 2013 Like

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P̶R̶I̶V̶A̶T̶E̶!

"(Was I TOO LOUD?) Even now, a few days later the word, is as big and as hollow as it ever was. Perhaps I could withdraw it, as one often does with things one writes online, pulling out the bottom...

Mar 14, 2013 Like

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Un voyage vers...

"Something you never thought might happen: after a certain number of years the being who has read all these neglected books will step from your bookshelves, will sit down at your table...

Mar 13, 2013 Like

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Oulipo as always...

I'll be reading something, and talking to Lauren Elkin about Oulipo tomorrow, 7pm, Monday 11th March at Shakespeare & Company bookshop, Paris. Please come if you can.

Mar 10, 2013 Like

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It's sound

I can be found talking about Paris with Adam Biles & Kit Caless here on Resonance FM's wonderful show, Mapping the Metropolis. Towards the end of the recording I also read a story about sex &...

Mar 9, 2013 Like

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MANIFESTO

I guess everyone should write one... Here's an extract from my first post as writer in residence for Necessary Fiction. But, wait! First I would like to pause for a moment in order to enjoy being...

Mar 4, 2013 Like

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Great Britons!

When I'm not writing about Surrealism, I design stuff including, sometimes, scarves: well it worked for Elsa Schiaparelli... I was delighted to work with the wonderful Age of Reason again, this...

Mar 1, 2013 Like

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A Man Asleep, a man awake...

Here's an extract from my Berfrois essay on Georges Perec's newly-translated dream diary, published by Melille House. “Along with a poorly identified person (maybe my aunt), I am visiting a sort of...

Feb 27, 2013 Like

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Eat Your Words...

I did a thing for the London Review of Breakfasts (the site has a fine-looking book out later this month). Here's a bit of it. It's not much about breakfast really (unless you like eating your...

Feb 12, 2013 Like

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Joan Didion in a Cashmere Onesie...

...and other (living, female) super-authors. I'm thinking of making this drawing into a tote bag or something. Anyone interested?

Feb 8, 2013 Like

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The Kelley Scarf - (50 Shades of) Giveaway

Here's a Valentine's giveaway for a pocket square (35 x 35cm) version of this design I did for Age of Reason scarves as part of their Boudoir range. This is a sample of a scarf not yet in...

Feb 5, 2013 Like

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Blue Marguerite

I ran out of Yellow Marguerites. Anyone who'd still like a print, including anyone who asked me but hasn't paid/swapped/whatever yet, will get a Blue Duras: one of a signed limited edition of ten....

Jan 30, 2013 Like

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Blue Marguerite

I ran out of Yellow Marguerites. Anyone who'd still like a print, including anyone who asked me but hasn't paid/swapped/whatever yet, will get a Blue Duras: one of a signed limited edition of ten....

Jan 30, 2013 Like

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Par Avion

I wrote a story for this anthology. It's called, Hauptbahnhof, and it's about a station in Berlin. "I know what you are thinking. But it is possible to sleep on the station. If you don't look like...

Jan 21, 2013 Like

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Duras Prints For Sale - Not Very Expensive...

A few people have asked me about the drawing of Marguerite Duras I made for Berfrois.com so I made a limited edition of 10 giclee prints. They're on museum-grade paper in acid-free inks. Each is...

Jan 17, 2013 Like

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Berfrois (outcuts)

"One good thing about being a woman is we haven’t too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me." I have an essay over at Berfrois about the way a few female writers are...

Jan 11, 2013 Like

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A Short, Dark Story

National Short Story Day was on the shortest day of the year: 21st December. I was trapped on a coach between London and Oxford. It was 3.30pm - already twilight, and besides the world was about to...

Dec 24, 2012 Like

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Joan Didion - The Packing List

You are what you wear? None more than Joan Didion. There has never been a writer I have wanted so much to dress like - never a writer whose wardrobe, Didion herself suggests, brings me closest to...

Dec 20, 2012 Like

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A Naked Face

"Before the appearance of a mirror, the person didn't know his own face except reflected in the waters of a lake. After a certain point everyone is responsible for the face he has. I'll now look at...

Dec 19, 2012 Like

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The Lover

"One day, I was already old, a man came up to me in the entrance of a public place. He introduced himself and said, “I’ve known you forever. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young,...

Dec 18, 2012 Like

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The Village Bike

...a fragment of the design I've been working on for Age of Reason scarves this week...

Dec 14, 2012 Like

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Very Last Cuisine de Meuh - Gratinee

This is my final Cuisine de Meuh post: I've finally got to the bottom of the box of cards I found in a French seaside villa. Given today's cold weather, this last one is seasonal. I'm serving you...

Dec 12, 2012 Like

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Bookgame, Berlin!

I ran a bookgame at the wonderful English language bookshop, Dialogue, Berlin, last weekend. The principles behind the game are here. I had an impressive list of contributors: as well as friends of...

Dec 6, 2012 Like

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I drew a New Button for 3am Podcasts

You can see it about half-way down the right sidebar on this page. But here it is too... It's a 1930s Dutch parabolic listening device.

Dec 5, 2012 Like

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Wild Hare Club Solstice Spectacular

(and a poster I did for it: tickets & more info here)

Nov 22, 2012 Like

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May Day Poster

Necessarily Fiction?

More MANIFESTO

Necessary/Fiction

Tentative d'infographer un Petit-déj

P̶R̶I̶V̶A̶T̶E̶!

Un voyage vers...

Oulipo as always...

It's sound

MANIFESTO

Great Britons!

A Man Asleep, a man awake...

Eat Your Words...

Joan Didion in a Cashmere Onesie...

The Kelley Scarf - (50 Shades of) Giveaway

Blue Marguerite

Blue Marguerite

Par Avion

Duras Prints For Sale - Not Very Expensive...

Berfrois (outcuts)

A Short, Dark Story

Joan Didion - The Packing List

A Naked Face

The Lover

The Village Bike

Very Last Cuisine de Meuh - Gratinee

Bookgame, Berlin!

I drew a New Button for 3am Podcasts

Wild Hare Club Solstice Spectacular

An Invite For Tomorrow Night: Haecceity Project

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