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Richard Smyth is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in the New
Statesman, the Guardian, Prospect, the TLS and the New Scientist. His books include the novel The Woodcock and, most recently, the nature memoir The Jay, the Beech and the Limpetshell. He lives in Bradford.

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Marvellous Meals

Richard Smyth on Maurice Sendak, The Nutshell Library

Everyone knows that in 1963 Maurice Sendak wrote a masterpiece in ten sentences (37 pages, 338 words, beginning with ‘The night Max wore his wolf suit . . .’). That was Where the Wild Things Are (see SF no. 20). A year before, though, he wrote four masterpieces in nine centimetres.

The Making of a Bird Nest

Richard Smyth on R. S. R. Fitter, British Birds

It’s an enticing mystery, this question of how one of the great ornithological brains trusts, a convention of the finest minds in twentieth-century bird science, created the most popular bird book of its age, and perhaps of all time.

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