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From Puddingdale to Hogglestock via Silverbridge.

Posted on October 23, 2010 by kara

From The Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope Barchester is a cathedral town in imaginary Barsetshire of mid-nineteenth century England. Each of the six Barchester novels — beginning with The Warden, and continuing with Barchester Towers, Dr. Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, … Continue reading →

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On The Nightstand

Posted on October 16, 2010 by kara

Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope

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A Radical Pessimist’s Guide to the Next 10 Years

Posted on October 15, 2010 by kara

Douglas Coupland’s “Radical pessimist’s guide to the next 10 years”  is a thought-provoking, traumatizing exercise in linear predictions based on peak oil, rampant financialist malfeasance and climate change. Coupland reveals the shape of things to come, with 45 tips for … Continue reading →

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Ou à tes-vous, dÃcadence?

Posted on October 1, 2010 by kara

Where did the decadent novel go? from guardian, uk If ever an age called for the kind of self-conscious maximalism pioneered by Wilde, Baudelaire and Huysmans, it is ours. Instead, we are beset with dreary naturalism. “What happened to the … Continue reading →

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And Then There Were Fewer.

Posted on September 25, 2010 by kara

(spoiler alert). First, there were ten….. a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a remote island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All … Continue reading →

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Never Let Me Go: What happens when novelist and screenwriter are friends

Posted on September 23, 2010 by kara

From The Afterword Reading Society Nine months before it was published, Alex Garland read the manuscript of Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel, Never Let Me Go. It took him less than a day to finish, and later that evening called up … Continue reading →

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Infinite Sadness.

Posted on September 21, 2010 by kara

A new novel by the late David Foster Wallace, set in an Internal Revenue Service office in Illinois, will be published April 15, Tax Day. Titled “The Pale King” , the book was was unfinished when the author committed suicide … Continue reading →

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Never Let Me Go To Boarding School.

Posted on September 11, 2010 by kara

Ah, the English boarding school of fiction! Happy schoolgirls scrambling over undulating green hills and hedgerows to classrooms in former manors or castles. Twins, unruly tomboys, sheltered small town bumpkins, spoilt brats, mysterious foreign exchange girls, sexually ambiguous jocks who … Continue reading →

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Don’t Read. Just Destroy.

Posted on September 8, 2010 by kara

WANNA BURN A BOOK? “Book burning is antithetical to American ideals”. – Sarah Palin, via her Facebook page.

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