Picador are giving away a proof copy of John Banville’s latest novel The Infinities http://bit.ly/10zA98 # Raymond Chandler’s gin gimlet (an approximation): http://bit.ly/RhFxA RT @MaudNewton # Man Booker longlist announced http://bit.ly/OYbcV # Are the Booker judges an ‘ethnicaly pure, upper middle class cartel’? http://bit.ly/Z2JRG # Giles Coren doesn’t hit back angrily at Mr Barry’s review? […]
“I mean it really should be as close to idling as possible.” Joseph O’Neill on writing http://bit.ly/UOVIU # We like the sound of Bolano’s By Night in Chile http://bit.ly/XB76T # Which UK politician is the obvious choice for novelisation? http://bit.ly/M0XXP # More comments on the ‘Towards a Poetics of Anger’ essay http://bit.ly/sF04g # Unfinished Graham […]
writing has become a weapon http://bit.ly/10vEmi # 10 guidelines for structuring a short story http://bit.ly/xF2Cx # Reviewing the reviewers – the debate continues http://bit.ly/YXDcY # Off now to finish ‘Last train to liguria’ by Christine Dwyer Hickey # that should have been ‘from liguria’ of course – apologies # Extract from Leviathan, winner of the […]
Amazon now in tax dispute with Japan. http://bit.ly/vwb08 RT @roncharles # extract from Mausolée Rouja Lazarova looks back at three generations of women under communism http://bit.ly/Rp48n # July issue of Words Without Borders is on Memory and Lies http://bit.ly/yd1fW # Humble yourself and take the GCSE literature quiz at the BBC http://bit.ly/WC6V0 # Google.it celebrate […]
Hemingway’s “Feast” more moveable than first realized http://bitly.com/jwaKJ # Faulkner trivia – he wanted to use coloured inks in ‘The Sound and the Fury’ to delineate multiple time periods http://bitly.com/S9B0N # William Burroughs and Susan Sontag on meeting Beckett http://bitly.com/i5XoM # Irish novelist Sean O’Reilly interviewed in TMO http://bitly.com/mYAx2 # On MATG, Niven Govinden wants […]
Fragments shored against my ruin: @harmlessfraud takes a look at Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture http://bit.ly/SnaIg # Censoring an Iranian Love Story http://bit.ly/2MbWzZ # Ha Jin talks about the mother of all mother-in-law stories http://bit.ly/ZD1k3 RT @GrantaMag # Wallace had less in common with Eggers and Franzen than he did with Dostoevsky and Joyce http://bit.ly/pbaRb […]
– Metempsychosis, he said, frowning. It’s Greek: from the Greek. That means the transmigration of souls. # – O, rocks! she said. Tell us in plain words. # 9:15AM; “Kingstown pier,” Stephen said. “Yes, a disappointed bridge.” RT @UlyssesSeen # A good introduction to Joyce’s Ulysses, from the TMO archives, for Bloomsday http://bit.ly/G6MW5 # Bloomin’ […]
Samuel Beckett’s Postmodern Fictions – an essay by Brian Finneyhttp://bit.ly/10eWnh # Sean O’Casey – Portrait of the Artist as an Outsiderhttp://bit.ly/5BKLG # Dublin author Trevor Byrne interviewed about his debut novel Ghosts and Lightninghttp://bit.ly/sVF2r # Cormac McCarthy’s Paradox of choicehttp://bit.ly/RTmPU # From the TMO archives – Nadeem Aslam, writing against terrorhttp://bit.ly/kmHiA # Laila Lalami on […]
Kate Atkinson would, money permitting, prefer to write and not be published http://bit.ly/18nBaC # Stuart Evers is allergic to AS Byatt http://bit.ly/B8CeI # Revisioning ‘The Great Gatsby’, an essay by Susan Bell (via the elegant variation) http://bit.ly/CxZiX # From the Hay festival audio archive -John Mullan & how the novel works http://bit.ly/rTy0y # Eduardo Galeano […]
Poor Gordon Brown – he must look with no small amount of envy across Europe to Italy, where Silvio Berlusconi looks set to romp home in this weekend’s European Election vote with his Popolo della Liberta party expected to win somewhere around 40% of the vote (which combined with their righ-wing alliance partners the Lega […]
