CLASSIC CAFES
Posted: June 8th, 2005, 11:07 am
Here's the link to the Classic Cafes website:
http://www.classiccafes.co.uk/Intro.html
Three ideas are close to me connected to this theme:
1. The chance to watch passing humanity-- in my case, sketch them, and of course, take notes about them.
2. The fine observation this article makes with its apt phrase "The brutal Starbucking of the City . . ." could apply anywhere-- certainly in LA where I live.
3. The mention of the desirability of "a local butcher" as a business in the neighborhood. Since my father was a local butcher in small towns and I grew up more or less in a small butcher shop, this intrigues me.
I came across this website researching a writer I'm reading at the moment, Iain Sinclair, who appears here as one of the writers interviewed.
Sinclair isn't well known to the American public, but he is a vast chronicler of "sixties and seventies" phenomena in London, a friend of the spectacular and better-known writer Peter Ackroyd, whom I have read extensively.
At any rate, I hope you enjoy some of this series of interviews with writers in London coffee shops. I did.
There are plenty of analogies to the US for Americans to think about.
By the way, I first heard about Iain Sinclair on the William Gibson website.
Zlatko
http://www.classiccafes.co.uk/Intro.html
Three ideas are close to me connected to this theme:
1. The chance to watch passing humanity-- in my case, sketch them, and of course, take notes about them.
2. The fine observation this article makes with its apt phrase "The brutal Starbucking of the City . . ." could apply anywhere-- certainly in LA where I live.
3. The mention of the desirability of "a local butcher" as a business in the neighborhood. Since my father was a local butcher in small towns and I grew up more or less in a small butcher shop, this intrigues me.
I came across this website researching a writer I'm reading at the moment, Iain Sinclair, who appears here as one of the writers interviewed.
Sinclair isn't well known to the American public, but he is a vast chronicler of "sixties and seventies" phenomena in London, a friend of the spectacular and better-known writer Peter Ackroyd, whom I have read extensively.
At any rate, I hope you enjoy some of this series of interviews with writers in London coffee shops. I did.
There are plenty of analogies to the US for Americans to think about.
By the way, I first heard about Iain Sinclair on the William Gibson website.
Zlatko