It may be the best song on the finest album by the greatest rock group of all time. Does this that make it the best song of all time? Unlikely....
— Tom Bissell, in a passionate McSweeney's essay on "She Came in through the Bathroom Window".
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Who is Nicholas Laughlin?
I am a writer (read some of my reviews, essays, etc. at Choosing My Confessions), editor of The Caribbean Review of Books and Caribbean Beat, and programme director of the Bocas Lit Fest. Visit my home page for more details. I’m a bit more active on Twitter: @nplaughlin.
I’m a co-director of Alice Yard, an experimental creative space and network in Port of Spain.
I co-edit Town, a modest literary magazine published in two formats: broadsides posted in public locations around Port of Spain, and online.
See photos at my Flickr page.
See my collaboration with artist Christopher Cozier, Tropical Night.
Amours de voyage; or, notes from an occasional traveller.
Some poems.
Email me at:
nicholaslaughlin[at]gmail[dot]com
My second book of poems, Enemy Luck, was published in 2019 by Peepal Tree Press.
My first book of poems, The Strange Years of My Life, was published in 2015 by Peepal Tree Press.
I’m a co-director of Alice Yard, an experimental creative space and network in Port of Spain.
I co-edit Town, a modest literary magazine published in two formats: broadsides posted in public locations around Port of Spain, and online.
See photos at my Flickr page.
See my collaboration with artist Christopher Cozier, Tropical Night.
Amours de voyage; or, notes from an occasional traveller.
Some poems.
Email me at:
nicholaslaughlin[at]gmail[dot]com
Blogs I read oftenish
Caribbean magazines, journals, newspapers
Literary magazines, websites, and blogs around the world
Other people, places, things that interest me (in no particular order)
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- In his "Arts on Sunday" column in the Stabroek New...
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- Well worth bookmarking: ReviewsOfBooks.com collect...
- Who cares about the problems the narrator, Emmett,...
- "GOVT IN CAHOOTS WITH AL QAEDA", reads the Express...
- A letter published in today's Gleaner: THE EDITOR...
- R.I.P. Al Hirschfeld, 1903–2003.
- Time has picked up the Naipaul/Tehelka story in it...
- Bill Clinton is visiting St. Lucia this weekend, b...
- Amuse-bouche: "It was a takeout menu, slipped thr...
- ... both his sentences and the structure of his no...
- I am not for one moment pouring cold water on the ...
- The UK Observer today runs a clear, carefully reas...
- Ruel Johnson is the youngest nominee for the 2002 ...
- Wouldn't it be neat to run a magazine? A literary ...
- Today's editorial in the Stabroek News is a carefu...
- Recommended reading from Saturday's U.K. Guardian:...
- Last week & this week B.C. Pires has been thinking...
- From a fascinating story in today's Express: Lead...
- So England is going to Zimbabwe for the World Cup ...
- The latest from India: Two days after the Nobel l...
- Damien has been arguing with British consumer advo...
- Just a few miles from here, across the Gulf of Par...
- In his column in today's Express, Denis Solomon sa...
- I said it yesterday (slightly more eloquently, I h...
- Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul accused the Indian gov...
- Perhaps Howard Chin Lee needs to give Mr. Giuliani...
- In case of a war, can't you leave the country befo...
- I imagine that in another time Kevin Baldeosingh w...
- A senior member of the Opposition here in T&T dema...
- Maciej Ceglowski is working on a semantic search e...
- From our reading: "The complexity of things becom...
- More news from India: Naipaul speaks out on the Te...
- The National Book Critics Circle yesterday announc...
- Busy, busy, busy in New Delhi! V.S. Naipaul attend...
- Lots of letters on the UK visa issue on the Gleane...
- I'm 21 years old and grew up with the generation o...
- Guardian Sunday editor Kris Rampersad is in New De...
- A little while ago, in a sunny, little, pluralisti...
- The painter Hubert Moshett, an influential figure ...
- There's been lots of commentary in the letters pag...
- Up in balmy Key West, Derek Walcott's been doing m...
- Jonathan asks, Where are the women columnists in t...
- Maya Angelou's new "Life Mosaic Collection" at Hal...
- To the cricket fans among my half-dozen readers: a...
- On Thursday night Derek Walcott gave the John Hers...
- The upshot of Afro-Saxon culture among us is that ...
- The headlines in the Indian newspapers are shrieki...
- Both the Gleaner & the Observer in their editorial...
- From our reading: "After short, incoherent days, ...
- Andrew Motion, the British poet laureate, has writ...
- Today's Express editorial takes on former "human r...
- In today's Express, Kevin Baldeosingh profiles Jam...
- Demented people! That's how director of the Commi...
- From our reading: To the Poet Henry Gould in the ...
- Coverage of the latest revelations from Apple in S...
- The January Trinidad & Tobago Review is out this w...
- And from the letters page of today's Stabroek News...
- At last, a fella with some common sense (from the ...
- This morning Mr. Sheply and I did eat our breakfas...
- Meanwhile, in Baghdad: Today wasn't only a holida...
- My question to all those who believe in liberty an...
- The op-ed pages in today's Express go at the T&T c...
- Philip Spooner, writing in today's Nation, draws o...
- In a spirit of complete self-indulgence — & inspir...
- Why ... does a Caribbean-born British writer consi...
- Does Guyana simply take its literature more seriou...
- B.C. Pires, writing in the Guardian today, makes t...
- A correspondent has drawn my attention to the Wint...
- From time to time over the years Desmond Hoyte and...
- Nightly Beside Nightly beside the river's lawns, ...
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