La Grande

After having been to a wonderful concert by singer-songwriter Laura Gibson in January, her new album La Grande has been my constant companion for many a long morning bus-ride through London, as well as for many a quiet winter evening spent at home knitting. So, of course my next finished project had to be named

Going to the Country

At the moment, when I’m not busy reading nerdy academic stuff about medieval art, I’m reading Bill C. Malone’s “Don’t Get above Your Raisin’. Country Music and the Southern Working Class“. In this excellent book, Malone – professor emeritus of history at Tulane University and, without doubt, the leading authority on country music’s historical and

Under the Red Sky

Before we kick off with our recently announced Lit Knit series, dedicated to knitting in fiction writing, here’s one more post about the real thing, about knitting in the real world. I just finished knitting this cowl/neckwarmer… …and what’s best is that I finished it in less than a week – after the long epic