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Making progress …

November 27, 2013 by Diane Becker

 Been up in the hills for long enough, time to escape to the warm flat in the middle of town for the winter. Spent most of the summer reading: two Junot Diaz collections, Drown and This Is How You Lose Her, both of which I loved; Wells Tower’s Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (ditto), dipped into Edna O’Brien’s The Love Object and Flannery O’Connor’s Complete Stories (part of a recent prize from Faber that included the Diaz); did some vicarious travelling […]

Categories: Journal, Photography, What I'm reading

From Craig-y-Llyn

October 29, 2013 by Diane Becker

Took this on way home from Llangeinor. Drove up through Rhondda valley and stopped for a break at Craig-y-Llyn before heading over to the Brecon Beacons. Dramatic sky and post-industrial landscape reminded me of the Pennines.

Categories: Journal, Photography • Tags: Craig-y-llyn, landscape, photograph, post-industrial, Rhondda

Sunrise 04:24

July 1, 2013 by Diane Becker

Categories: Journal, Photography • Tags: July, Powys, Sunrise, The day I got up early enough to capture sunrise

Hot hot hot …

June 27, 2013 by Diane Becker

What was hot? Hay Festival. George Saunders. My inner fan girl. James Salter. Robert MacFarlane. A walk in Mousecastle Wood. A visit to Hergest Croft Gardens. An RHS cream tea. A walk on the Begwns. Coconut ice cream. Not necessarily in that order.

Categories: Culture, Journal, Photography • Tags: Begwns, George Saunders, Hay Festival, Hergest Croft Gardens, James Salter, Mousecastle Wood, Robert MacFarlane

Short fiction wins

May 23, 2013 by Diane Becker

So, Lydia Davis has won the 2013 International Man Booker Prize, fuck fuck fuckity fuck – now everyone will be reading her, and talking about her, and she won’t be my secret favourite short story author EVER anymore. I ordered The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (Abe Books) after reading this review by Tania Hershman in The Short Review (originally posted in 2010), and this (beautiful hardback) collection is now a permanent fixture in the stack of books I keep by my […]

Categories: Journal, Photography, Published Work, What I'm reading • Tags: Blind Spot, Diane Becker, Hay Festival, Lydia Davis, Man Booker International 2013, Short Fiction, short stories, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, The view from here

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Only temporary …

April 7, 2013 by Diane Becker

I’ll miss my temporary desk. OK, it wasn’t very big and had to double as a table but at least everything was within arm’s reach. On Monday we moved out of the – very warm – flat we’d rented for the winter and into our – very cold – metal box up on the hillside. At 6am on Tuesday it was 1°C INSIDE. A few days later, a few degrees warmer. We have hats, thick socks, three duvets and a […]

Categories: Journal • Tags: birds, hills, temporary, waiting for spring

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