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Category Archives: Authors
Tony Judt. 1948 – 2010.
Tony Judt, the British writer, historian and professor who was recently described as having the “liveliest mind in New York” and a public intellectual known for his sharply polemical essays on American foreign policy, the state of Israel and the future … Continue reading
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Tagged Ill fares the land, postwar, tony judt, tony judt dead, tony judt lou gehrigs disease, tony judt obituary, tony judt rip, tony judt the meriitocrats
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Left to the WOLVES.
Snow lay thick, too, upon the roof of Willoughby Chase, the great house that stood on an open eminence in the heart of the wold. But for all that, the Chase looked an inviting home – a warm and … Continue reading
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Tagged adam taylor-smith waverly council, andrew brown fossway developer, conan doyle development, conan doyle house, down house darwin, english heritage, historic preservation, hound of the baskervilles, jeremy hunt, joan aiken, john gibson, john gibson sherlock holmes, michael wilson architect, save undershaw, sherlock holmes, sir arthur conan doyle, surrey, undershaw, undershaw conan doyle, undershaw in hindead, victorian society, wolves of willoughby chase
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A Literal House of Horrors
The isolated retreat that Edith Wharton designed for herself in The Berkshires is straight out of The Shining.
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They’re Writing this Article Again.
“The Female Voice of a New Generation”. Wake me up in another ten years.
America’s Next Top Novel – Brought to You by Eustace Tilley and James Bottomtooth
Oh the banality of it all. In today’s double issue of the venerable New Yorker, the snoots and James Bottomtooths pay homage to 20 young (under 40) whippersnappers, whom they deem to be the most talented and most important writers … Continue reading
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Tagged beverly cleary, bottom tooth, charlotte zolotow, doris lessing, eustace tilley, family guy new yorker, gay talese, gladys baker bond, harper lee, John Ashbery, mary higgins clark, new yorker under 40, over and over, ramona the pest, ruth rendell, toni morrison, trixie belden, ursula k le gain, william gass
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What Would Wallander do?
Swedish crime writer and personal hero of mine, Henning Mankell, was aboard the Swedish ship Sofia, one of six ships in the flotilla carrying aid to Gaza. The 25-strong crew, including Mankell – as well as Nobel peace laureate Mairead … Continue reading
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On the Nightstand
I’m currently reading the new biography of Muriel Spark, the secretive author of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” who referred to herself as “Lucrezia Borgia in trousers” due to her ability to strike fear into the heart of anyone … Continue reading
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If Martin Amis is Filmable, What Isn’t?
Remember Money: A Suicide Note? I love this book! I even love the gross protagonist, “John Self”, a fat, gambling, chain smoking, pill-popping, rotting toothed alcoholic, guzzling junk food, lines of cocaine “the size of a hangman’s rope”, booze, cigarettes, … Continue reading
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Writer du jour
Iris Murdoch Influenced by many, including Freud and Sartre, and a committed Russophile, Iris Murduch was nonetheless a complete individual with an inspired moral sense. Irish-English Dame Murdoch was a novelist, playwright, critic and philosophy professor. A prolific philosophical novelist … Continue reading
Writer du jour
Lord Byron Famously described by his maitresse Caroline Lamb as “mad, bad, and dangerous to know” – in the 1990’s famously invoked by Dylan McKay, who we hoped would be all these things too but ultimately only shared LB’s reckless … Continue reading
