A Swedish Christmas, some saffron buns and a warm winter
#Scurf208: On the little new things in life and walking the winding lanes of this dazzling city
The miner of difficult truths
#scurf207: On Catherine Keener's portraits of our thwarted, everyday selves
how should a person be🕯️🍁
#Scurf206: Walking and Talking (1996) & Girlfriends (1978) - these movies, predecessors to 2012's Frances Ha, teach us a valuable something about being somewhere in the middle
Conversation with Will Anderson
#Scurf205: On the tradition of reading on family holidays, finding community on Goodreads and what reading can mean to us
Emraan Hashmi, long drives in the rain and what else
#Scurf204: a memory snatch from 2006, a whirlwind of nothing, a snag in the programming of november 2024
a new view, a new website & an old me
#Scurf203: that's how it rolls
Conversation with Arun A.K.
#Scurf202: On writing film criticism for Indian and global publications
Conversation with Madeleine Watts
#Scurf201: The writer on her most recent novel, learning German and life in Berlin
Conversation with Darran Anderson (II)
#Scurf200: On coming of age on the internet, preserving some precious moments in the personal space and Bachelard.
Conversation with Darran Anderson (I)
#Scurf199: The writer on objects telling their stories, Marxist landlords and the bright side of day jobs
I doubt therefore I think therefore I am
#Scurf198: May your September be full of wondrous hours where you read more and watch even more of Industry
Conversation with Elisa Gabbert
#Scurf197: The poet-essayist on rereading, her writing practice and the joys of writerly companionship
Conversation with A. S. Hamrah
#Scurf196: The writer on writing criticism, watching and often rewatching movies as part of the job
Conversation with Apoorva Tadepalli
#Scurf195: On writing, pitching and the excuse called "writer's block"
#Scurf194: Hi Haniya ♡
The musician whose work filled up the gloomy and not so gloomy minutiae
#Scurf193: Conversation with Menah
Of Amélie, visual notes, and all things illustrations with the Dutch artist
#Scurf192: Life is but an infinite scream 😱
Passing through a house here and then another 🌇 🌃
#Scurf191: On Patti Smith (from 2016) 💌
When Patti Smith performed Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2016, misty-eyed me wrote about it for The Hindu
#Scurf190: Conversation with Niamh Campbell
The Sunday Times Short Story Award winner on writing after childbirth, Dublin's welcome hipster gentrification and the vulnerability of being a young person in today's world
#Scurf189: Conversation with David Hering
The cinephile and bibliophile on literature and film criticism
