by Guest Blogger | Jun 19, 2010 | Blogs
Among those figures who emerge occasionally from the back of my mind, people like the Twenties’ singer Blind Blake who played ragtime and blues across the southern states before everyone plugged in and moved to Chicago, or the thirteenth-century wandering architect of...
by Guest Blogger | May 25, 2010 | Blogs
There is nothing so tedious and wonderful as a list of books. I once attended an academic conference held at a boarding school run by monks. A strange place, especially out of term, when the monastic round of lauds, compline etc. continued in the mostly empty...