The Steve Miller Band Featuring King MacBee: Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel Chapter 6 Time Flies When You're Having Fun Today was a special day for a whole bunch of reasons. Linda called me this afternoon to tell me that Lockdown in Amsterdam now boasts 40,000 subscribers. Forty-thousand! Let’s see now... at a buck-fifty per …
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 5)
Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel CHAPTER 5 New Balls, Please! I’ve never been a big sports fan. Whether it’s the rules of the game or the lines painted on the grass or the gym floor, from the umpire yelling “strike!” to the referee blowing his whistle to the linesman waving his flag, nowadays assisted by …
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 4)
Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel Chapter 4 Fake Fiction I just had a really enjoyable discussion with Full o’ Bull on the art of novel writing. Here is how it ended: He’s upstairs now, engaged in a heated debate with his wife and daughter on whether or not to kick me out of the house. …
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 3)
LOCKDOWN IN AMSTERDAM - Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel Chapter 3 The Amadeus Effect Breaking news from Amsterdam: Full o’Bull has just tested positive. Not to Covid-19, mind you, but to that mysterious, debilitating disease that afflicts a great many members of the literary community worldwide: writer’s block. “Don’t tell him I told you,” his …
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 2)
LOCKDOWN IN AMSTERDAM - Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel Chapter 2 COUSIN JULIA I was awoken early the next morning by a ringing telephone. At first I thought it was the hotel management to complain about the racket the girls and I had been making in the wee hours of the night, but it was …
Lockdown in Amsterdam (Chapter 1)
LOCKDOWN IN AMSTERDAM - Toby Quinn's Online Corona Novel Chapter 1 STARMAN Lockdown is doing funny things to our sense of time. How long have I been cooped up with Full o’ Bull and his family? And when did I arrive in Holland? Was it four weeks ago? Five? And do you remember the general …
Lockdown in Amsterdam
my Dutch host Lockdown in Amsterdam – Toby Quinn’s Online Corona Novel Preface to the First Edition Poor Full o’ Bull has had it with me. He caught me in the kitchen just now, wolfing down the last piece of his homemade quince pie. He had wanted to save it for dessert, to be cut …
Het werd Sri Lanka
Voor wie het gemist heeft, hier het 15-delige feuilleton vanaf het begin.
Het werd Sri Lanka (slot)
De hond van Odysseus We zijn sinds gisteren weer thuis. Ik sta in de keuken asperges te schillen. In de tuin staat onze meer dan 80-jaar oude goudenregen volop in bloei. Het was een vooruitzicht waar ik me meer dan anders op verheugde, omdat het zou betekenen dat we het er levend van af hadden gebracht. Zowel ‘het …
Het werd Sri Lanka (deel 14)
Onze vriend uit Jaffna Het personeel loopt met ons mee over de hangbrug om ons uit te wuiven. Waar ik het gisteren bij het zwembad bijna te kwaad kreeg met de wenende Boeddha, raakt A. nu geëmotioneerd. We beloven dat we op een dag terug zullen komen. Met de hele familie! Dat laatste is nogal …
Philibert Schogt 