Robert Barry
, March 6th, 2021 09:39
Musa Okwonga talks about his new novel, In The End It Was All About Love, out now from Rough Trade Books. The interview is followed by an extract from the book
Musa Okwonga is showing me his old smart phone. “Here it is!” he says, grinning, having dived behind the webcam to retrieve it. It’s kind of an odd moment in the chat, because, in a way, it’s just an ordinary black iPhone, not much different from the one in my pocket or a million others in a million other pockets. But at the same time, it’s not just any old phone. This particular black iPhone played an important role in the writing of one of my favourite books of the year so far. This phone has been on a journey.
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For 21 years, I have led an overnight backpacking excursion to a different wild spot in Pennsylvania on a cold, preferably snowy, winter weekend.
We donât do it to prove our mettle, but to immerse ourselves in a landscape of sights, sounds and light experienced at no other time of year. Itâs also an antidote to seasonal affective disorder.
Nearly each year, several people among us are experiencing winter hiking and camping for the first time. Sometimes overcoming a lifetime of trepidation, they are thrilled to learn that being outdoors when itâs freezing can be quite comfortable as long as they are wearing appropriate layers of clothing and bring the right gear.
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For a storybook-worthy vacation in Europe, head straight to Bavaria. Book a room at Burg Colmberg, a 14th-century castle rising from a rocky crag above a tiny village. It offers an eclectic collection of rooms tucked throughout a warren of crooked hallways, hidden staircases, and cozy sitting nooks. Be sure to visit the postcard-perfect Neuschwanstein Castle, resplendently perched atop a mountain, and take the time to tour Hohenschwangau, the castle in which Mad King Ludwig II actually lived. The latter is a more modest pile of battlements on a smaller nub of a hill in the valley below. What it lacks in the carefully crafted pomp and circumstance of Neuschwanstein which Ludwig II never lived to see completed it more than makes up for in homeyness and history.