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Londoners

Posted on May 15, 2012 by SallyK

Last month to my first meeting of the Blake Society, held on the first floor of the Spaniards Inn in Hampstead, London.  An appropriate venue as the pub has at least two literary associations – with Dickens and Keats.  Fading … Continue reading →

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Bloomsbury Publishing’s Twenty-Fifth Birthday Party

Posted on October 17, 2011 by SallyK

Birthday party in a huge marquee in Bedford Square. Twinkly lights in the huge plane trees. Vast numbers of people, including my collaborator the wonderful writer Tracey Turner, illustrator/author Steve Appleby and the ubiquitous Grayson Perry in peach satin – … Continue reading →

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Bricks

Posted on September 19, 2011 by SallyK

Yesterday to see ceremonial burying of bricks as part of Serena Korda’s Laid to Rest event.  Didn’t spot brick number 402 (see Poetic Dust post).  The bricks were buried in Coram Fields to the sound of the Brick Keepers’ Band.  Ladies … Continue reading →

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Famous Bodies

Posted on September 19, 2011 by SallyK

Last friday evening to fascinating Famous Bodies talk at the British Museum, to coincide with the BM’s Treasures of Heaven exhibition.  Marina Warner, Madeleine Bunting and Grayson Perry discussed the fetishisation of celebrity.  Think MW’s pic of a packet of Elvis’s sweat … Continue reading →

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Thinking Outside the Box – Society of Authors/Comica event

Posted on September 14, 2011 by SallyK

Took part in Society of Authors/Comica event last night, organised by the talented and energetic Sarah McIntyre and Paul Gravett.  Sarah’s excellent blog tells all.

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Comica Social Club

Posted on September 1, 2011 by SallyK

Comic strip enthusiasts’ meeting last night, and if it’s your first time (it was mine), just look for the man in the emerald fez, Peter Stanbury.  Does he wear it at home I wonder? Great talking to people from all sorts of … Continue reading →

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Paul Gravett and Shaun Tan

Posted on September 1, 2011 by SallyK

Most excellent evening on tuesday – Paul Gravett interviewed Shaun Tan at Waterstones in Picadilly, and Eric was there too.  I love his peanut suitcase.

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Book review

Posted on August 30, 2011 by SallyK

Just seen rather nice book review for The Big Fat Book of Knowledge, omnibus edition of three Bloomsbury comic strip books I’ve worked on with Tracey Turner.  This pic from one of them …

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Slutwalk – not

Posted on June 4, 2011 by SallyK

Bother.  Went down to Trafalgar Square to to join Slutwalk and discovered a crowd of Swiss footballer supporters and a Victims of Child Abuse rally.  I’d got the day wrong.

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Poetic dust

Posted on May 30, 2011 by SallyK

Whilst walking through Camden Town after visiting the Wellcome’s Dirt exhibition, I passed 8 Royal College Street, where young poets Rimbaud and Verlaine briefly lodged in the 1870s.  I scraped some doorstep dust into a small plastic bag, watched by … Continue reading →

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