Hi,Just a brief update this week. Sick man gets filmed in HDThe other day I was interviewed for a new UK boxset of Andrzej Żuławski films. I can't say I was in the mood for it - I hadn't eaten anything in about 22 hours because I'd had a stomach bug...

Hi,Welcome to your fortnightly update of Polish-English artistic musings that mostly just focuses on a long-dead guy called Marek Zulawski. He has a new retrospective exhibition later this year in Toruń, so he could use some promo.Marek gets his firs...

Hi,This week, I'm very pleased to say that I know the official date of the new Marek Zulawski exhibition in Toruń CSW in Toruń, Poland: the opening will take place on Friday 8th September 2023.While the final layout is still being devised, and I even...

Hi,I've been spending a lot of time in the world of online auctions recently. Today I realised I had a newsletter to write, so I panicked and decided to combine the two.Marek Zulawski stuff on the InternetGoogle has so many hidden corners, doesn't it...

Hi,It's my birthday this week. I had no children two birthdays ago, one child on my last birthday, and two on my birthday this year. I do not plan on continuing the logic of this sequence... 😅Old man, young babyAll this parenthood malarkey has made m...

Hi,Due to my children's near constant illnesses this week, I've had very little time to myself to think clearly and put together a coherent newsletter for you.Instead here is a photo of a sculpture by Marek Zulawski, a piece that perfectly captures t...

Hello,This week, as a way of distracting myself from the anxiety of suddenly living with two children, I started rooting around in the massive piles of papers we have at the family home in London. It has inspired a new section that I will feature reg...

Hi,We welcomed a new member of the family this weekend.Meet Gloria!Gloria's appearance a month ahead of schedule has meant little time at computers, so this week's email will be very short.Ebook updateThe ebook of Marek's diaries & illustrations...

Hello hello,Three short thingies for you today. Hope you enjoy them - if you do, consider forwarding this email to a friend. They will definitely love you forever.Taking a wok to PolandA friend brought this story to my attention last week and I am ev...

Hello,Welcome to the first proper Translating Marek newsletter. It's about Polish-English culture, as well as translation and language and Marek Zulawski-related things. I just made a landing page for signing-up to it which you can forward to people...