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You can see my blogs from Hay Festival in Kerala . Part 3 of Sunday, the final entry, should be going up soon. I had a blast. Highlights include having dinner with Jung Chang, not letting the monsoon rain stop a bunch of Welsh poets from having a good time in Kovalam, being touristy with Dylan Moore, drinking with Simon Armitage, Cat Weatherill, Ed Vere and co and the finale beach party. Big thanks to Germaine G for donating her mini bar supplies to us when we arrived at the after party to find the hotel bar was open to sit at, but not actually serving drinks. I also tacked on a mini beach holiday. Result. 

Ha ha. I'm in The Mirror.  # dmurphyisfab  :)  http://www.mirror.co.uk/life-style/talktalk/2011/11/08/d-murphy-swansea-telly-why-i-should-win-digital-heroes-wales-115875-23544870/   # swanseatelly   # swansea   # digitalheroes

Parthian Books announces a new editorial dream team - Kathryn Gray is the new Editor, and Jon Gower and myself are the two new Associate Editors. Delighted!

Sun, 2011-11-06 19:08 |    Susie Wild Parthian are pleased to announce that we are the new publisher of literary magazine  The Raconteur . Join us this autumn for a number of events to celebrate the launch of the 'America' issue in the new paperback format. 'Full of insights and valuable perspectives on the literary world’. – Alain de Botton The ‘America’ issue promises a transatlantic treasure trove of the freshest fiction and poetry from both sides of the pond, ruminations and reminiscences of the writing life from American writers working in Europe and European writers ‘over there’, travel pieces and reportage from across the United States, an eclectic mix of interviews and features as well as an all-but-definitive A-Z of American Letters. Contents include: Godfrey Hodgson on American politics Allegra Goodman on the American novel Jack Foley on the birth of the beats New fiction from Tom Abbott, Russell Celyn Jones and Todd Zuniga New poetry from Rhian Ed...

'For an event last week at Swansea’s Dylan Thomas Centre, I was in conversation with Cardiff authors Tessa Hadley and Deborah Kay Davies (the latter via virtual interview, available in full here shortly). The session’s title, ‘Interior Lives’, was appropriate, because the worlds of both Hadley’s  T he London Train  (out in paperback this January) and 2010’s  True Things About Me  by Book of the Year winner Davies are fiercely claustrophobic.' Read Gwen's blog in full:  http://newwelshreview.blogspot.com/2011/11/interior-lives-women-through-lens-of.html

Yes, I do get the irony of blogging about my article from this week's WM... Do you know your own Google ranking? Is life only happening if it is worthy of a status update and are the number of your Twitter followers in danger of overtaking @stephenfry? Writer Susie Wild insists all this online interaction is making us deeply unhappy, and the only way to reconnect is to unplug ... THERE was a time you’d only Google someone when you were playing the dating game. It was meant to minimise the risk that you wouldn’t be compatible – you wouldn’t like their job, their hobbies or, perhaps, their face. Thanks to being adults post-internet, when you typed in their name to the search box, chances were that your potential suitor’s workplace website, Facebook page, and embarrassing Flickr albums would appear to you within seconds: them asleep, them drunk, them kissing someone else, those college fashion mistakes – their wedding day. Then, employers seeking reliable employees got in on the a...