Radio 4′s Excess Baggage show, which I contributed to yesterday, is available online.  

Walter Salles’s film of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is due out next year, and will doubtless be accompanied by repackaged versions in print of what’s already an over-exposed novel. A much less familiar contribution to American travel literature has just made its first appearance on this side of the pond: The Cruise of the [...]

Newspapers are fond of using the word “as” in the standfirsts above feature articles in order to suggest that the material below couldn’t be fresher. E.g.: “As The Rum Diaries opens, Johnny Depp explains how it came to be set in Puerto Rico.” The Evening Standard went a bit too far yesterday, implying a bit [...]