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The One That Got Away – David Blacker

Sunday, July 5, 2020

The Sri Lankan writer and photographer talks about the greatest photo he never got… and one he did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

Filed in column, interview, Journalism | Also tagged Buddhism, China, clothing, demons, Interview, Kandy, light, monks, New York Times, novels, photography, Ritigala, Sinhala, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), Sweden, terrorism, travel, veddahs, war | Comments (0)

Booksheds

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

As Colombo emerges from the Covid lockdown, I go immediately to one of my favourite places. — For The Critic

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged Alfred Douglas, Andre Gide, Arthur C Clarke, bibliomania, books, bookshops, Borges, Ceylon, coconuts, Colombo, colonialism, Covid-19, Craig Raine, Cyril Connolly, David Kugultinov, David Nichol Smith, Dee Brown, Dervla Murphy, Dickens, Edmund Waller, education, EM Forster, English, fauna, Georges Bataille, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Harold Nicolson, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Joan Collins, Joseph Conrad, Kalmykia, Lenin, libraries, Lionel Shriver, Louis Mountbatten, Madeleine Albright, Maradana, Michael Ondaatje, Nabokov, Peter Ackroyd, Richard Flanagan, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Sinhala, Sri Lanka, Tamil, Teilhard de Chardin, The Critic, the Duke of Pirajno, The New Yorker, Tom Wolfe | Comments (0)

Second Thoughts

Monday, April 5, 2010

Very Short Stories* by ASH Smyth (et al.) * inspired by the Galle Literary Festival’s Opening Lines Project Antony Beevor In history, as in politics, intellectual honesty is the first casualty of moral outrage. In both disciplines, the first casualty of intellectual honesty is one’s wallet. David Blacker ‘He hit the morning, running, Benzedrine and […]

Filed in Fictions, Journalism | Also tagged Antony Beevor, Gillian Slovo, Ian Rankin, Lal Medawattegedara, Louise Doughty, Michelle de Kretser, Rana Dasgupta, Ru Freeman, Shehan Karunatilaka, Shyam Selvadurai, very short stories, Wendy Cope | Comments (1)

Beer, Roving, and getting to write your own headlines

Monday, March 1, 2010

Letter from the Galle Literary Festival 2011. — For theartsdesk

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged Ashok Ferrey, Blaft, Chinaman: the legend of Pradeep Mathew, Claire Tomalin, Diran Adebayo, Galle Literary Festival, Geoff Dyer, Geoffrey Bawa, Gillian Slovo, Ian Rankin, Kaveri Lalchand, literature, Louise Doughty, Malinda Seneviratne, McSweeney's, Michael Frayn, Michael Meyler, Mohammed Hanif, Monica Narula, Neluka Silva, Philip Roth, Pradeep Jeganathan, Rana Dasgupta, Ru Freeman, Sarnath Banerjee, Shehan Karunatilaka, Shyam Selvadurai, Smriti Daniel, theartsdesk, Ulrik Plesner, Wendy Cope | Comments (0)

Chicken dancing, naughty Tamil literature, and Rana Dasgupta goes Solo (outdoors)

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Galle Literary Festival diary – part 3.

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged Ashok Ferrey, Blaft, Cyril Connolly, Galle Literary Festival, Ian Rankin, Kaveri Lalchand, Malinda Seneviratne, Neluka Silva, Pradeep Jeganathan, Prospect, Rana Dasgupta, Ru Freeman, Sarnath Banerjee, Shehan Karunatilaka, Smriti Daniel, Solo | Comments (0)

(Beer and) Roving on the literary circuit

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Despatches from the Galle Literary Festival (SL Sunday Times).

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged Ashok Ferrey, Blaft, Claire Tomalin, Diran Adebayo, Galle Literary Festival, Geoff Dyer, Geoffrey Bawa, hangovers, Ian Rankin, Jehan Mendis, Kaveri Lalchand, Louise Doughty, Malinda Seneviratne, McSweeney's, Michael Frayn, Michael Meyler, Mohammed Hanif, Monica Narula, Neluka Silva, Philip Roth, Pradeep Jeganathan, Rana Dasgupta, Ru Freeman, Sarnath Banerjee, Shehan Karunatilaka, Shyam Selvadurai, Smriti Daniel, Spectator, Sunday Times (SL), Tokyo Cancelled, Ulrik Plesner, Wendy Cope, WG Sebald | Comments (0)

Geoff Dyer, Michael Frayn, and other people who were or were not there

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

GLF diaries – part the second.

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged Ashok Ferrey, Diran Adebayo, Galle Literary Festival, Geoff Dyer, Geoffrey Bawa, Gillian Slovo, Lal Medawattegedara, literature, McSweeney's, Michael Frayn, Michelle de Kretser, Monica Narula, Pradeep Jeganathan, Prospect, Rana Dasgupta, Ru Freeman, Ulrik Plesner, Wendy Cope | Comments (0)