What brings me to this place, this pass? It’s four-fifteen in the afternoon on Charlotte...
What brings me to this place, this pass? It’s four-fifteen in the afternoon on Charlotte Street and I’m thinking of ordering a third bottle of white wine. On the table in front of me I have copies of two books: War Like a Wasp by Andrew Sinclair and Under Siege by Robert Hewison, both studies of…
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‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
‘English football’s most precocious and precious talent is evaporating into the skies over Italy like the fading flares of a half-spent Roman candle.’
‘Did you know that a hundred-gram jar of Nescafe filled with 1p coins buys two packets of Benson and Hedges?’
‘My first sighting of Paul Gascoigne was in 1987, when he was playing for Newcastle.’
‘The antitheses had been there all along but in July 1990, after Gascoigne’s World Cup triumph, they were given a new formulation.’
’The three month siege of Vukovar, in the autumn of 1991, when an average of 5,000 shells a day landed on the city, set a pattern for events in the former Yugoslavia.’
