Eleven kinds of loneliness

Since Christmas Eve I’ve been reading short story collections. I’m modelling this reading project on the one I did back in the summer, in my last month in Taiwan (which was an attempt to get my head around literary theory and postmodernism). The process is simple: you drink coffee and eat small meals through the [...]

What’s up in Taiwan

Hey, if you’d like to hear what I sound like, this is an old interview with “What’s up in Taiwan”, a once weekly audio blog that’s sadly now ceased.
Daniel rambles and mutters.
If you enjoyed that one, also listen to my friends. Here’s the politics and blogging guru Michael Turton, and the English legal rose Rebecca.
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Daniel

The kiss

Sorry everyone, not much to share at the moment. I’m sitting at home, finishing my application for the University of Indiana, and reading stories by Chekhov.
Daniel

Frost in Hampstead

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Revision!

I’ve been writing my personal statement and academic statement for Michigan’s MFA programme, and by this morning I had reached about the seventh draft for both. University applications are peculiar: you’re trying to be neither too clever nor too dull; unique but not a nutcase.
It’s hard to keep faith with the process of [...]