Lists

What I am supposed to be reading...

• 'Blindness', by Jose Saramago. Started it 2 years ago, so it is deserving of completion
• 'The Polysyllabic Spree', by Nick Hornby. An account of one man's struggle with his library
• 'The Shadow of the Sun', by Ryszard Kapuscinski, recounting his travels in Africa (also check out 'The Soccer War', by the same author)
• 'The Thurber Letters'. The collected wit and wisdom of James Thurber
• 'Unacknowledged Legislation' by Christopher Hitchens
• 'A Love Supreme' by Ashley Kahn. An account of the recording of one of the great John Coltrane albums
• 'The Art of Looking Sideways' by Alan Fletcher. Something I regularly revisit to stimulate my neurons, synapses & axons. Get his 100 Maverick Postcards too.
  
• Back issues of 'The Believer' - so delicious that I can only manage one article per week (thanks D)

What have I dropped? Well...

• 'The Rialto' (as they forget to deliver it)
• 'Brittle Star' (mostly a cure for insomniacs who don't respond to strong drugs)
• 'The New Writer' (An ugly mug on the cover of every issue guaranteed!)
• 'Poetry Now' (it sucks the sweat out of a dead man's balls, and I profoundly regret my association with Anchor Books)
• Frequent masturbation (as I enter a six month spunk-free funk)
  
• WriteWords (it's expansion proved that less is indeed more)
• ABCtales (I registered, but never used it as it was too damn s-l-o-w)
• Masturbation (I told you it was frequent)
  

Mags to fill your fountain pen to:

• The Believer
• Granta
• Ambit
• Poetry Wales
• Rising (now that Timmy has finally got funding)

and in the 'not so bad camp':

• Aesthetica
• Magma (partly because it's also the name for a porn movie studio)

...oh yeah, before I forget - 'Poetry Life' closed due to lack of subscribers.

Ciao for now, Fearless