“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’

Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”


DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland ... Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin)


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08 January 2012

THE SMELL HUNTER HANGS UP HIS NOSE

One of the world's great noses is about to retire.  To listen to Marnie Chesterton's Radio Netherlands interview with Dr Roman Kaiser, the Smell Hunter, click here and wind the cursor on to 13.45.  (The preceding bit about the Dutch Buddhist monk who guards geese is very cool, too.) To read Michelle Krell Kidd's fascinating interview with the Doc, click here, and bookmark her blog, Glass Petal Smoke.  It could use some humour - Americans are so goddam ernest - but it's essential aromatically!

1 comment:

Michelle Krell Kydd said...

Thanks for posting a link to the interview with Dr. Kaiser. He is one of the most amazing scientists I've ever met; generous with his time and knowledge!