Pine Slopes

Listen to my chat with Tymon Smith on the Sunday Times podcast:

Aryan Kaganof talks to Tymon Smith (10:11)

And read my notes about… reading, in the ST book pages this week:

Looking back / the most important book i ever read / the one that had the most influence on my writing / was not / the journey to the east / nor / the little prince / nor / slaughterhouse five / nor / anything by buk / it was / bob dylan lyrics

i read that book from cover to cover / a thousand times / before i ever heard a single song by bob / i was given that book / by a stripper who worked at the blue waters hotel / where my mother worked as a receptionist / and i used to come home from school / durban preparatory boys high school / and devour that book / like it was manna / and imagine to myself what the songs would sound like / and it was only years later that i first heard blonde on blonde / and fell in love with blood on the tracks

• Complete notes in the Sunday Times