Free time

Clay Shirky told me that society’s critical new habit since WWII has been the (9-5 x 5) working week and, consequently, FREE TIME.

He says that FREE TIME was filled right up with TV until the internet thwunked in.

And now I am listening to Backdoor Broadcasting, specifically Alain De Botton on working life, before I wake up and catch the train to work.

There are also much more interesting things to be found at Backdoor Broadcasting! Although they could change their Radio Spiritworld colour scheme. Have a look in your FREE TIME.

posted by Ossie

Posted 2 years ago

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A gnome is:

a) a maxim which imparts knowledge, often taught to the young
b) a legendary dwarf

gnome online is:

Ossie Froggatt-Smith works 9-5 as an editor and sometimes a journalist. He studied Byzantium and still thinks about it all the time. He manages gnome.

Edward Randell is a journalist. He sings in Paris with the Voice Messengers, and has written for the TLS and Jazzwise. He edits gnome.

Roberta Klimt spends a lot of time at the British Library, so much that she gets paid for it. She blogs and writes at gnome and the Oxford Left Review. She also studies medieval Italian literature.

Andrew Naughtie studies sociology. He lives in Bristol, but is moving to Chicago, Illinois! He blogs and writes at gnome.





At gnome, we get together with people and promote non-fiction writing because we think that:

a) young non-fiction writing is v v under-appreciated
b) writers are discouraged by brutal subs and celebrities

If you would like to:

a) suggest some useful links/blogs/events to gnome
b) write a non-fiction essay to be produced by gnome

we would love to hear it.

Submit by clicking submit, or get in touch, by emailing gnome [dot] magazine [at] googlemail [dot] com.

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