John Burnham
John Burnham
matter never-forget certain
Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.
certain affinity recognise
It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.
stars mirrors light
Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded.
began fiction maybe realised teacher
I was 12. Our, teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's when I thought maybe I was a writer, or at least a fiction writer.
couple family lawyer
For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend.
men commodity ifs
Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.
country people supposed
In Japan, more than in any other country I've ever been in, one is not supposed to write about the people in the glass bubble; that is why they are in the glass bubble.
people return verbs
Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat.
children real animal
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Now he brings his abundant literary gifts to a debut novel set in a very real borderland in which human beings are themselves treated like animals. The Jaguar’s Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.
children brave jaguars
The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.
girl boudoir might
A girl never can predict who might wander into her boudoir during a bubble bath.