References To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic American novel by the late, great Harper Lee. It was also made into a stunning movie featuring Gregory Peck as every woman’s highly confusing boyfriend/father figure, Atticus Finch. My niece, Nerea Li Santi, is a silversmith who makes both quirky pieces of jewellery from her brilliant imagination …
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L: Mixed lollies R: milk bar in the ’70s or early ’80s. See the cardboard boxes under the counter? That’s the lollies. And the people behind the counter didn’t think twice about sticking their bare hands inside. And we didn’t think twice about eating the lollies. Correction What planet was I on? The place you …
Get your FREE Pillow Talking zine from Sticky Institute, or send away for one from anywhere in the world at Small Zine Volcano. References Esther Perel is an author, therapist, and speaker, and probably has the highest-regarded podcast about couples: Where should we begin? It’s also totally addicting. The Making of Love by Steve and …
References Letters Live is “A celebration of the enduring power of literary correspondence.” Check them out here: Letters Live website. They create wonderful letter-reading events in the UK (only the UK, I think), but luckily for the rest of us elsewhere in the world, the videos are almost as good. Here are the ones I …
References and resources The quote and title of this week’s ep comes from the 2010 movie, The Switch. It’s not meaning-of-life stuff, but a pleasant jammies-all-day, cold-pizza-for-breakfast watch nonetheless. The official name of The Grampians is Grampians National Park. The name given by its traditional owners, the Jardwadjali people, is Gariwerd. I took a mass …
Émile Zola a was a French novelist, journalist, and playwright. I have only ever read a few of his works but the one I mention (in very bad French pronunciation, sorry), Thérèse Raquin, is the one that stayed with me. You can read and download Thérèse Raquin in a bunch of formats over at Project …
References and resources The quote “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing” is attributed to the Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw. He was a fascinating man and I love many of his works (particularly and predictably the musical adaptation of Pygmalion, My Fair Lady) but one of …
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References and resources There’s a lot of information out there on how colours enter the world’s languages, but I really ejoyed this vid: Why The Ancient Greeks Couldn’t See Blue. Offred is the protagonist in The Handmaid’s Tale. “Betty and Veronica” refers to Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge, the two girls that have kept Archie …
References and resources The quote Con H. refers to is from Walden, by Henry David Thoreau: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”. You can read or download Walden in a range of eBook formats for free at Project Gutenberg. If you’ve never heard the word “puttana” before, here’s a definition. Kulfi is …
References and resources Dylan Thomas at Poetry Foundation Recent paper on romance fiction from The Journal of Popular Culture – Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty‐First‐Century Australian Romance The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer How to Be Good by Nick Hornby This episode’s stories I Really Was a Wanker by Thylan Domas …
