So just an update on reading: Submarine, Care of Wooden Floors, Goon Squad, The Teleportation Accident, Casino Royale, The Art of Fielding, Light Boxes, Lee Rourke on fables, The Ongoing Moment, Art Incorporated, Child 44, How To Write A Lot, various Lovecraft stories, along with a Denise Riley essay. Two classics to finish now, then some photography books I think. Reading The New Yorker a lot.

Recent commissions include those for US magazine Smithsonian, The Daily Telegraph and Museums Journal. I am also working on an essay for London's Cole Gallery, on the illustrator, painter and sculptor Robert Nicol, who has an exhibition there next month; the show is based around the life and death of John Franklin, a little-known explorer whose crew died, and cannibalised each other, during a trip to the Arctic in the 1840s.

I've been interviewing lots of former NOTW journalists for Graham Bowley's forthcoming book on Murdoch while the former is in Afghanistan. In addition, we've now got around eight interviews up on MYMZK; please follow the site on Twitter here or mail us with interview suggestions at mail@mymzk.com.