My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Male
Industry	Publishing
Occupation	Retired magazine editor
Location	Hereford, United Kingdom
Introduction	Newspaper and magazine journalist in England and the States. Renounced West Riding birthright in 1959. Retired 1995.
Interests	Writing books: Gorgon Times (novel) - published. Out of Arizona (novel) - published. Opening Bars, Singing at eighty, and Beyond (non-fiction, autobiographical) - published. Two Homelands (short stories) - published,Blest Redeemer (novel) - awaiting publication. Second Hand (novel) - awaiting publication. Rictangular Lenses (novel) - one-third written. Reading The Guardian, Taking singing lessons, Avoiding soccer.
Favorite movies	Wild Strawberries, Hidden, The Shooting Party, Manon des Sources, Groundhog Day, Le Scaphandre et le Papillon, Duel at Silver Creek, Fitzcarraldo, US B-feature quickies of the fifties
Favorite music	Glenn Gould, Janet Baker, Andreas Schiff, Paul Simon, Richard Strauss (operas, orchestral songs), Charles Ives, Most of the biggies except Rossini, Berlioz, Verdi, Mendelssohn,
Favorite books	Joyce (bar Finnegan), Proust, Updike, Waugh (bar Pinfold), George Eliot (bar Romola), Ross Thomas, Romain Gary, Georges Duhamel, Patrick O'Brian, US police procedurals and legal-background thrillers