Stumbled upon a great interview with @mj_hyland over at vulpes libris http://bit.ly/Qoks6 # Julian Barnes on Guy de Maupassant (in the LRB) http://bit.ly/deapz # rt @serpentstail giving away 5 copies of “The Sexual Life of Catherine M” & “Jealousy” once they reach 500 followers… RT to enter # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Julian Barnes on John Updikes Rabbit Quartet http://ow.ly/vasr Now re-published by Everyman http://ow.ly/vasT RT @blhupdates # Amos Oz’s ‘Rhyming Life and death’ reviewed as part of Canongate’s literature world tour – http://bit.ly/2FyOob # Powered by Twitter Tools.
New Post on The Death of Bunny Munroe – Nick Cave | Is there a book in this blog? http://bit.ly/XayHp # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Not sure what to make of Tim Davys’ Amberville, but I’m enjoying it a lot http://bit.ly/AnPKd # Both #6 and #7 deserve their places in The Millions’ countdown Millennium list: http://www.themillions.com/ RT @harmlessfraud # Powered by Twitter Tools.
after a thumbs up from @harmlessfraud, I’m going to read ‘Under the Volcano’ by Malcolm Lowry # Nick Cave talks to the Guardian about ‘The Death of Bunny Munro’ http://bit.ly/wnUND # From the TMO archives – John Banville and the reigning spirit of the novel, thanatos http://bit.ly/oOBUy # Mark Sarvas writes about E. Annie Proulx’s […]
Man Booker shortlist is announced http://bit.ly/1fNsw # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Fintan O’Toole talking about Flann O’Brien http://bit.ly/4lOOeB # And O’Toole’s article on Flann O’Brien – Oblomov in Dublin http://bit.ly/1hjFD # ‘I still think if a book does not confront the crisis of purpose in contemporary life then it must go to the bin’ http://bit.ly/qFUCW # Powered by Twitter Tools.
publishers don’t like short stories unless they are VERY high concept, or by someone very strange, famous or Indian http://bit.ly/vMgZ2 # using poetry to sell cars – the Ford Faberge’ that never was http://bit.ly/vMgZ2 # “surely everyone (probably even Dan Brown) can agree that beyond high and low art there is also pure shit” http://bit.ly/qOOwU […]
Should the laws of physics apply? Oyeyemi’s White is for Witchinghttp://bit.ly/14Uaxc # Flightpaths – a networked novel http://www.flightpaths.net/ # Ruth Dudley Edwards takes Banville to task. Is he slumming it when writing as Benjamin Black? http://bit.ly/IdN2H # The Guardian ‘not the booker’ prize longlist is here – you can vote until the 23rd August http://bit.ly/7P6p0 […]
RT @tweetmeme Cal – Bernard McLaverty | Is there a book in this blog? http://bit.ly/Ky1qk # “it’s so serious, it’s so morally weighted that it could kill a novel”. Ian McEwan’s next subject: climate change http://bit.ly/9IDpv # RT @tweetmeme The Engineer of Human Souls | Is there a book in this blog? http://bit.ly/nJG1g # #bookgiveaway […]
