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 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
#Scurf188: The City That Got Away
Thoughts I had during a recent trip to this city for which I was probably not desperate enough all those years ago
#Scurf187: Conversation with Sal
The critic and aesthete Saleha Salam has done more than writing on films — she turned film writing and tweeting into the central art form of her time
#Scurf186: 4am scribbles
A note as a post
#Scurf185: Conversation with Joseph Schreiber
The editor, reviewer and blogger talks to me about his reading habits, key influences and on being the new Essays editor at Minor Literature[s]
#Scurf184: Go Goa Gone, 11 years on
The main meat of the wild humour and transgressive freedom of the film is Kunal Kemmu's laugh-out-loud funny dialogues and salty zingers
#Scurf183: Conversation with Anna
On academic writing, Agnes Callard's conservatism and Charlie Kauffman's movies
#Scurf182: Toying with Psychogeography or crying in new places
How writing, being, living shifts in places new, when we always have to carry our old selves aka the itinerant ways of the self
#Scurf181: Conversation with Nicholas Walton
The former BBC journalist, think tank comms strategist and author on climate change, Italy and all things communications
#Scurf180: Conversation with Mumbai Paused
The man behind the handle Mumbai Paused, Gopal M.S., talks about patterning the mundane in the streets of Bangalore and Mumbai
#Scurf 179: Conversation with Eleonora
The Italian writer, journalist talks to me about reading her experience in newsrooms, studying economics and writing flash fiction
