Tuesday 9 February 2010

Getting personal

Another week, another top-notch piece up on gnome, if we do say so ourselves.

This time Andrew Naughtie delves into the true meaning of the 'personal' and 'privacy' in the age of full-body scanners and 'sexting', not to mention Beyonce and her video phone.

Chew it over here.

Monday 8 February 2010

In Jazzwise

A heads-up that if you are skilful enough to locate the jazz section of WH Smith (took me long enough) you should reward yourself by purchasing a copy of this month's Jazzwise. It's the one with Pat Metheny on the cover. My winning Write Stuff review of John Surman's London Jazz Festival appearance is printed on p. 59.

The unedited version is still up on the website.

Monday 1 February 2010

Introducing gnome

I do apologise for my sporadic blogging lately. I'm sure you've all struggled to locate some core of meaning in your lives in the absence of regular posts to read.

By way of excuse / consolation prize allow me to unveil:


Ossie Froggatt-Smith & I have been cooking this up for a while, as a space for young people's quality nonfiction writing. Right now there's not much on it - besides an article I wrote about break-up albums (rather Tosh Pit - esque in style), and some handy links. However, it will continue to grow over the coming weeks. We've got some really exciting pieces lined up from some unfairly talented writers.

You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook.