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With a preview copy of Indiaman in my backpack, I finally made it to the beaches of Pondicherry, India, 16 September 2023.
William S Burroughs' house in New Orleans, 18 August 2016. Jack Kerouac visited Burroughs here in January 1949. He wrote about the house in On the Road - "It ran clear around the house: by moonlight with the willows it looked like an old southern mansion that had seen better days."
I asked an AI image generator to come up with a cover for Indiaman with the prompt “Irish astronomer in India”…
I always thought these two unpublished manuscripts of mine had really cool cover designs. The Virgins of Mars (2013), a collection of short stories, was my first manuscript, and Writer vs the World (2017) is a diary of my travels in 2016 through Japan, the United States, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Canda.
I’ve always loved James K Baxter’s short poem about my home town.
I visited Tennesse William’s home in the French Quarter, New Orleans, 20 August 2016. “America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland” - Tennesse Williams.
Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture, near his childhood home at 1 Merrion Square, Dublin. 18 May 2009.
Wellington, 2009.
The first draft of The Bloom was written in this notebook in April 2013.
Pysch World (2014) was my first novel. I wrote it in these notebooks while I was supposed to be working as a caretaker at the Victoria University of Wellington. Although it went unpublished, it did make the longlist for the 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel.
Outside the location of the scene of the shootout in Taxi Driver. 226 13th Street, East Village, New York, 15 June 2014.