From AD to YA
In my day job as a rock star, I sit around a lot in airports, lobbies and hotels, waiting for unpredictable amounts of time – time that can’t be spent on anything useful. So what I generally do is pull out my phone and play Scrabble or Words With Friends.
I’m a fairly good player, for a musician. But I can never remember all the two-letter words, without which such word games are clunky and awkward. So some time ago I started writing little poems as mnemonic devices. After a few, I thought I’d better write all of them down, and how better to do that than to write a book? Here are a few of my favourites.
101 Two-Letter Words, by Stephin Merritt, with illustrations by Roz Chast, is published by WW Norton & Company, priced £13.99.
I’m a fairly good player, for a musician. But I can never remember all the two-letter words, without which such word games are clunky and awkward. So some time ago I started writing little poems as mnemonic devices. After a few, I thought I’d better write all of them down, and how better to do that than to write a book? Here are a few of my favourites.
101 Two-Letter Words, by Stephin Merritt, with illustrations by Roz Chast, is published by WW Norton & Company, priced £13.99.