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 […]
After the revelations about the government’s plans to privatise higher education there was a storm of debate on the pages of Gazeta Wyborcza – no, not about education, about something called the Hausner plan. Unless I miss my guess this is the second plan to be named after this Hausner person. This one concerns public […]
– 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’ […]
Yesterday Gazeta Wyborcza announced plans by the government to stop paying for students to do two degrees – one’s your limit. Today’s paper lets the cat well and truly out of the bag. There’s an interview with professor Kazimierz Stępień, chairman of the Rada Nauki (Education Council, more or less) at the Ministry for Privatising […]
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 […]
Blogtrotter review of Michel Faber’s ‘The Fire Gospel’ http://bit.ly/U1dw4 # Litblogs on Kindle? A lot of fuss about nothing, according to the Literary Saloon http://bit.ly/t0vFq # In case you were searching for an online comic-book adaptation of Joyce’s Ulysses http://bit.ly/47JbSl # And from the same people, as we run up to bloomsday it’s worth following […]
