Peter Kravitz

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Couples, individual & trauma psychotherapist in Edinburgh. Climate grief, poetry relief. Editor: The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Shakespeare for everything & nothing. (And my Great Aunt Fanny ran The Vegetarian Hotel in the Catskills.)

Photo of Maureen Beattie as King Lear, pointing her finger at one of her three daughters
Iris Murdoch draws a picture of herself calling to a cartoon of Raymond Queneau busy writing at a desk.
A black doorway set into old red sandstone. In the middle of the black door is a tall narrow graffiti figure in yellow with its eyes looking down and the words sad man forming most of the body.
Joan Eardley with her easel on a cliff top at Catterline just south of Aberdeen. Behind her is a washing line with two towels or maybe a towel and a pillowcase drying.
Photo of the front of Lighthouse Books in Edinburgh
Cartoon like drawing of Martin Heidegger as seen through the eyes of Paul Celan, with the words ‘The philosopher was unashamed…He kept whistling’.
Front of the bookshop Acres of Books with the motto ‘Travel Around the World with Bertrand Smith’s Acres of Books’
Photo of Abdullah Ibrahim against backdrop of grass, tree and mountain.
Description of how the new Obama centre looks like something from a science fiction film, and how the money spent on it could have rejuvenated this part of Chicago’s South Side.
Agnes Varda frames a car transporter with a circle made from her index finger and thumb
Zero Mostel wearing fur velour coat with his eyes bulging out pointing down, and hair pulled out to the side into points and same above his head.
The original Fontana label from the centre of the French vinyl release of the Miles Davis quintet music for Lift to the Scaffold/Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Louis Malle, 1958).
Description of how one Indian farmer is having to alter what he sows because of the increasingly erratic monsoons.
Picture of people gathered around back of a horse drawn cart showing an impresario presenting the boy who never stops smiling. The cover of the classics illustrated the man who laughs.
Woodcut of a man in bed gazing out of window into hills and tree
Diagram of locations of where different types of book are located in the church book sale at St George’s Church on George Street Edinburgh
Picture of Tupperware on kitchen table with sign saying that you have to claim yours back or it’s going into the recycle
Cover of Trip by Amie Barrodale with a silhouette of a bird in front of green and pink psychedelic patterns
A picture of the two sisters sitting at a table looking at the camera and smiling and looking forward to starting their restaurant.
British Workers’ Sports Federation poster inviting people to join the mass trespass on Kinder Scout on April 24th 1932
Picture of the dwarf Zoltan wearing a green waistcoat and pointing his Hawking glove upwards and sporting a little ginger Mohican haircut
Page 289 from the first page proofs of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Proof marks remove the whole page.
She is responding to a question about what she does in her spare time and she goes through the list of multiple choice options such as racketball and golf that they offer her and none seem to fit. She also reflects on those who have no spare time because they have to work.
Agnes Owens describes how she feels more comfortable writing about people who fail than those who succeed.
Interview from comics journal where he explains his early experience of surrealism watching a Marx Brothers movie with Harper leaning against the building and a policeman saying “what do you think you’re doing holding the building up?”And Harpo walks away in the building falls down.
Mythical bird Simurgh has two people in its mouth flying above a person trying to g to pull it down to earth
How repetition, clean design and familiar source can persuade us to believe something that we maybe shouldn’t
CV for Alastair Gray including his wishes to keep his work simple and with few lines, but his hard it can be to stick to this
Picture of a sign at Edinburgh Airport that says Disruption Desk
Man with French horn and rocking horse balanced on his shoulder as front of Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
Floor plan of the reference point bookshop, library and café bar space in London
This piece by John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats on The Tunnel by William Gass, including how talk radio hosts receive the presidential medal of freedom for their ‘tireless work in the burgeoning field of yelling about things that annoy them’
Toni Morrison describes the paradox of neither dwelling too long in the past nor avoiding it, and how her narrative in Beloved became a pitched battle between remember forgetting.
An extract from the financial times that includes the phrase freak maps in response to a competition to redraw the map of Europe after the Great Wall
Picture of the author with his head in his hands looking melancholic
James Kelman writing about returning to independent publishers
Passage from the play Sir Thomas More describes the plight of immigrants in Shakespeare’s time
The cover of a 1975 science-fiction novel showing jaundice person’s face with fiery red eyebrows and their tongue sticking out becoming a curvy arrow like from a financial market pointing back into their open mouth.
Account of how Cezannne collapsed in Road and was found by laundry van driver and went on to paint his gardener then died shortly after.
Picture of new sign in Edinburgh that says People’s Leisure Club
Marilynne Robinson describes the fear that the current troubles in America may continue for decades and how the worst outcome would be quiet.
This is a picture of the founder of the house of women centre in France. She’s standing next to a staircase with a mural behind the stairs going right to the top.
This is part of a record of a years shopping list of buying things from the reduced counter everything from dried Birdseye chilies to Belgian hot chocolate to fibre and fruit bars and Quorn cocktail sausages and mini fillets.
A picture of the rubber stamp that this bookshop in Edinburgh puts in the front of books it sells, which is a linocut showing a typewriter keyboard and old school printing machine
A black-and-white photograph of the composer Morton Feldman sitting smoking in a brasserie in Paris reading France Soir newspaper with the headline Désolation au Quartier Latin describing assaults by the police on those behind the barricades along with news of 400 arrests.
New poem by Anne Carson on hope, candour, paranoia and the limits of language and rationality
Advert for free visiting days to the Alasdair Gray and Agnes Owens archives in Glasgow
Soutine painting of a ray fish with cherries on a platter, next to a toothbrush in a small jug.
The publisher and author are happily drinking and smoking in the garden of a party in Paris in 2012
Picture of Frank Gehry’s building for Maggie’s Centre in Dundee. It has a folded roof that almost looks like it’s been crunched, and a smooth turret like structure that rises up above everything else and offers views into Central Scotland.
Essay on how Russian language handles the word sausage
Muriel Spark on the front page of the Edinburgh Evening News
Trees with snow on their bark
This shows the cover of the latest Tate magazine from London‘s art gallery. The picture shows either a young seek boy looking straight at the camera from the 1980s.
Cary Grant lights the cigarette of Ann-Marie Saint in North By Northwest
Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre on Xmas decorations