![]() ![]() ![]() His warm humour and wit allow him to segue from wine tasting, to university grading, to the temporality of art, and back again. His writing is intelligent while remaining simple and colloquial – it feels like coming home. Like all essay collections, some essays are stronger than others. Personal favourites include ‘A Minor Memory’, about Bailey’s newfound obsession with Shazam, and ‘Anyone Who Had a Heart’, which focuses on Bailey’s wife’s hatred of Burt Bacharach, and a trip to Italy. Bailey’s writing is less successful in essays like ‘Alien Pleasures’, where the segue from an anecdote about leftovers into a discussion of citizenship feels a little forced.īailey writes wonderfully about the oddities of human relationships – his nods to the quotidian, to food, and to the mundanities of ordinary life ground his writing firmly in the everyday, with glints of humour bringing a sense of warmth and accessibility. After a few days, the eggs hatch and become Cindelaras male chicks. Lovers of David Sedaris, eat your heart out. As is the custom of his father, Cindelaras like chicken connect. ![]() Cindelaras come to connect villages chicken.
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