Category Archives: Basel

Diccon Blues

Posted on September 8, 2010 by robhunt510

I’ve done my share of American/English bookshops around the world, from Buenos Aires to Cairo to Budapest. Yeah, I know. It is fair to say that they tend to have a particular vibe to them, particularly at book launches. And … Continue reading →

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A few tales from the Rhine Riverbank, Spoiler Alert: No Wagner Yet

Posted on September 4, 2010 by robhunt510

Quite a lot of my days have started and continued like a tutorial at Oxford. The summoned by bells bit, woken from tired-limbed sleep by honking great church peels, at seven, half past, eight. I am usually human by eight. … Continue reading →

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G-LOST, the fifty kilometre day

Posted on September 3, 2010 by robhunt510

The old town of Brugg, like so many of the smaller places on the trip at this time of the year, wakes with deep sharp shadows, and a sense that the entire population is still at the beach, somewhere else. … Continue reading →

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A Communal Event, for Everyone

Posted on July 21, 2007 by robhunt510

Two weeks ago the Italian press wrote that a hacker had entered the publisher’s computer. It named the victims of J.K Rowling’s pen. Nothing was written in English to confirm or deny that my Google Alerts found. A global discretion…and … Continue reading →

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