In Case of Loss PG25 Critics and food aficionados have

Critics and food aficionados have been flocking to this understated bàcaro where Russell Norman serves up dishes from the back streets of Venice

building a bug hotel

but how you get there and who you meet along the way

progressing through the glittering social scene of 1970s New York and Valentino's domination of Hollywood from the 1980s to the present day

In Case of Loss PG25 Critics and food aficionados haveIn Case of Loss reveals Seiler's essays to be different to, but on a par with, his fiction and poetry. Beautifully anecdotal and associative, they throw a light on literature and his East German background, including the Soviet era mining community he grew up in, and are full of insight, humanity and an attention to overlooked objects and lives. It is never about reconstructing. Memory does not bring back what was forgotten. Indeed, the person who