concerning bridgeness
[issue 16 The Signal House Edition]
In 1968 an American industrialist bought London Bridge. In the early 60s it was found that the 130-year-old bridge was sinking into the Thames. Unsuited to modern traffic and destined for demolition, a decision was reached by the City of London council to instead try and sell the bridge.
object lessons
[issue 7 The Signal House Edition]
In 1964 Joan Didion left New York City. She recorded the event much later in Goodbye to All That, the modern gospel on leaving New York, and also on leaving. It is easy to see the beginnings of things, she writes, and harder to see the ends. Exactly 50 years after Joan Didion left New York, so did I.
fishing with hemingway
[issue 1 The Signal House Edition]
“Do you read Hemingway?” The sound of something striking brass, a bird of prey flees in the distance. It’s a leathery, loaded question. And, let’s be honest, a dividing one. For a writer whose work can stand in for the authority of literature itself, like Woolf or Flaubert, maybe you’re asking... do you care about reading?