Three Score & Ten is an anthology of literary quotes illustrating every year of one’s life from conception to death. Basically 0 – 70 (or minus 9 months to 70 if you prefer).
Donate
W.B. Gooderham
I’m a freelance writer (published by The Guardian, The Observer, Time Out, Tank Magazine, Wasafiri, Modern Books, and Comma Press) and co-run the Tufnell Park Film Club.
The book-of-my-Other-Blog, Dedicated To…, a collection of inscriptions found inside second-hand books, was published by Transworld in 2013. The book is now out of the print (natch) but the blog goes on (& on).
Below is a selection of my writing (mostly for the Guardian unless stated otherwise). The complete list of Guardian articles can be accessed via my Guardian profile.
- Other People’s Dreams – short story published by Fairlight Books
- Kafka’s Metamorphosis and its Mutations in Translation
- Journeys in Literature: John Cheever’s The Swimmer
- Books to Give You Hope: John Lahr’s Prick Up Your Ears
- A Book to Share: Angela Carter’s Wise Children
- Baddies in Books: Alex from A Clockwork Orange
- Darkness in Literature: Saul Bellow’s Something to Remember Me By
- Winter Reads: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story by Victor Bockris
- Once Upon a Time: The Lives of Bob Dylan by Ian Bell
- Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan by Ian Bell
- Top Ten Books Given in Books
- The Death of the Novel Inscription G2 article
- Blindly by Claudio Magris
- Interview with Robert Elms on BBC London about The Secret History of Second Hand Books
- Interview with Paul Auster for Time Out
- The fiction of literary friendship
- Among the grownups: Children in adult fiction
- Do too many authors spoil the book?
- The secret stories of book inscriptions
- Martin Amis’s war against death
- Reading your way out of depression
- Is Holly Golightly the Great Gatsby in drag?
- Growing up with your favourite fictional characters
Miscellaneous – in a past life I wrote and recorded music in the bands Baptiste & Kelman. Also did some Other Stuff. Here it all be (for better or worse).
- Baptiste *
- Kelman **
- Stryker!
- Man o’ Mind
- Reading & discussing an extract from F.Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night with Read Me Something You Love
* Naturally, some songs are better than others. For the record, I’m fairly pleased with A New Career in a New Town, Icarus, Kissing With Your Eyes Open, A Worthy Grudge is a Beautiful Thing, Tired Bodies and Confessions of a Clumsy Man.
** Ditto The Happiest Man Alive, These Days, Kicking Cans All The Way Home, Some Things Never Work Out and You’re Still Everything To Me.