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literature, archives, material texts, culture, with varying degrees of 1st personness

By Adam Smyth

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Dec 13, 2020•Adam Smyth

Paperback writer

I co-wrote a novel with my friend Chloë; it came out in hardback in June 2025; it’s published in paperback this week.

May 31•Adam Smyth

Re-reading

It’s an odd temporal tumbling, re-reading a book you read a long time ago.

Apr 24•Adam Smyth

Jamais vu

This morning I was in the London Library – a beautiful, calm place on St James’s Square; Virginia Woolf’s favourite spot; miles of stacks and an…

Mar 24•Adam Smyth

Writing to authors and getting replies

In the mid-1990s I wrote some short stories, and, not knowing quite what to do next, I looked up the names of authors I knew and liked in Who’s Who…

Feb 13•Adam Smyth

Books & Hands

The village of Great Tew, Oxfordshire, was famous in the 1630s as a gathering point for intellectuals who, reclining in the comfortable surroundings of…

Feb 4•Adam Smyth

Thinking

What does thought look like?

Jan 19•Adam Smyth

What I did at 5.35pm every day from 5 January 2025 to 5 January 2026

Sunday 5 January Setting up google spreadsheet for recording what I’m doing at 5.35pm.

Jan 8•Adam Smyth