What is this?

Let me answer this reasonable question by stating what this blog isn't: it is neither a travel notebook nor a diary. It is, one could say, a dustbin of collected writings, some journalistic, others purely fanciful, escape pieces. As for the ridiculous title of this blog, Gogol said it all: "Perhaps it may strike the reader as a rather strange and farfetched name, but I can assure him that it was not farfetched at all..."

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Previously on Gogol's Coat

• The art of trucking, Malian style

• Walter Battiss: The last orgy

• Moshekwa Langa: A painter's muse

• A message to Ernesto Alfabeto Nhamuave

• Stephen Hobbs: Recording a city in flux

• Finding Little Switzerland

• Naoya Hatakeyama: Journey through the residual wor...

• Anyway: Santu Mofokeng's laughter

• Fiction: Strange weather

• Clive Chipkin: Lover of the unloved

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