Splanky in Greenland concerns itself with North Atlantic settlement, settlement and restlessness, travel and sedentism, and related matters. Its shadowy cousin, How to Settle, thinks about about how and where writers stop to write; and about how and where they come to rest.
Both are written by Toby Ferris.
Splanky is a Neal Hefti tune written for the Count Basie Orchestra and featured on the album The Atomic Mr. Basie (1958). The word splanky means something like cool or hip.
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Toby Ferris is also responsible for Anatomy of Norbiton, a systematic description of an attempt to build not just a life beyond failure, but the Ideal City of the Failed Life. In Norbiton. Seen through the lens of the Italian Renaissance.
His first book, Short Life in a Strange World, which relates a five-year project to visit every extant panel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, was published by Harper Collins US and 4th Estate in 2020.
He is represented by Anna Webber at A.M. Heath.