You keep what you kill

Home of the Nazis. Well, not unexpected really, since the Börsenverein is happy to take the money from disgusting publishers like Kopp Verlag. Good to know that the guest of honour 2018 will be "Deutsches Reich", as the new bookfair director Joseph. B. Höcke has recently announced . In my bookfair microcosmos, I only became aware of all this the Monday after though. I had a wonderful fair, the weather was so nice and made everything really, really relaxed. Met lots of nice and interesting people over three days, fantastic food, old and new friends. Plus my panel about AI in Publishing on the Friday afternoon worked really well - capacity crowd, standing room only. :-) OECD reception: Dinner at Medici and Sardegna: The usual poor, embarassing performance of Frankfurt Bookfair - no credit cards accepted, a website from the stone age, marketing for events not happening ... so still way to go, guys. We'll see whether they ever make it into the 21st century. I...

So sorry. Tremendously sorry. Have broken my promise to blog more often again. But trying to make up for it now that the rainy season approaches. It's just that, ah, nevermind. So, last night we had quite a fantastic dinner at "Richard" (Köpenickerstr. 174, Kreuzberg). There's so many things I liked about it, they would never fit into a twitter feed. I'm not a twat, don't tweet, and have no limits here. The room, very nice, high ceilings, good light ... the service, attentive but unobtrusive at the same time ... the menu, well balanced and so happy to see that they offer a vegetarian menu by default, not just on request ... and the food of course, the food. THE FOOD. Excellent doesn't do it justice, outstanding is the right term, I guess. My special favorite was the butternut pumpking with passionfruit and topinambur and the parmesan pasta with egg yolk, mangold, and zucchini. Outstanding. Also the cheese selection, outstanding! :-) Didn't have breakfa...