Fernando Gros

I started writing the memoir soon after my mother passed away in September 2022. It took shape during the months I spent on the Granta Memoir Writing Workshop<...

For more than twenty years, since I left London for the first time back in 2003, I’ve had “start an internet radio station” on my to-do list. The shape of that to-do list – paper or digital, app or freeform – has changed many times since then. But that item has remained, carried over from year to year. An internet radio station. Focused on jazz music. Broadcasting around the ...

Months confuse me. For starters, they aren’t all the same length. And they don’t start on the same day of the week. They come at us in chaotically unpredictable ways. Commit to doing something once a month and you’re locked into a pattern that changes every few weeks.

One of my favourite regular commitments is a memoir writers’ group. At first, we agreed to meet once a...