April 2010
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Books Blogs - Technorati →
For God’s sake, out of 9.5k entries in the Technorati directory for Entertainment, nearly 3000 are for books!!!!!
OMG.
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“The handbag really came to the fore as a fashion item in the 1920s, when...”
– Handbag
Sydney academic and fine, fine blogger Meredith Jones on handbags as containers and billboards, at her excellent newer blog, the carriage held but just ourselves. Enjoy.
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“Roddy Doyle: It’s a pure form of self- employment. I wake fairly early but I...”
– The rules of write club - The Irish Times - Sat, Apr 24, 2010
thanks to Gary Pearce on Twitter for this link.
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Ruby Street: over the hills →
A very fine poem by Jill Jones.
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“I saw businesses with dying spider plants in filthy windows. Was it not...”
– Andrew Wylie in The Observer
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“Got blog? The one thing you should NEVER do with your blog!”
– April 19 Lulu U Class: Tricks to Sell More Books | Lulu Blog
If it doesn’t cost anything, it would almost be worth signing up just to see what that ‘one thing’ is.
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“Ten of the best breakfasts in literature - here are two.
From Russia with...”
– Ten of the best breakfasts in literature | Books | The Guardian
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“Thomas M. Disch possessed a nightmarish imagination that combined J.G. Ballard’s...”
– David Auerbach, of Waggish, writing at The Millions, on The Prescient Science Fiction of Thomas M. Disch
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“Sales of Emily Bronte’s 1847 classic Wuthering Heights have quadrupled...”
– Wuthering Heights quadruples sales with Twilight effect | theBookseller.com
(Via @literaryminded on Twitter.)
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“Disappointed by Beethoven’s potty mouth (‘How very German,’ he muttered),...”
– darkly wise, rudely great: A Party in Heaven
Iz Australian philosopher blogging. Magnifique.
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“In the film Saint-Ex is surrounded by women under the watchful eye of Consuelo,...”
– Haunting film of Le Petit Prince author Saint-Exupéry for auction - The Guardian
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W.H. Auden's "The Age Of Anxiety"
One must love Auden’s poetry to be able to speak this heresy, but I can’t help wondering what fun he might have had – we might have had – with, instead of the poem, a wartime novel in the vein of Henry Green or Elizabeth Bowen. In virtually the last words of the poem something is revealed: “[Malin] returned to duty, reclaimed by the actual world where time is real and in which,...
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“‘…check out this overdue profile of Samuel R. Delany, whose magnum...”
– Garth Risk Hallberg at The Millions
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“In his illuminating introductory essay, the curator of the MoMA show, Peter...”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century by Peter Galassi | Book review in The Observer
One to look out for.
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Cordite Poetry Review » The Vegetarian Zombie by... →
Now that’s what I call clever writing to a theme.
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“Of Lady Russell in Persuasion: ‘A right-feeling but wrong-judging parent,...”
– Hermione Lee on Penelope Fitzgerald, this time on her notes on Jane Austen.
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Hermione Lee gives a taster on her Fitzgerald bio...
This does sound exciting.
The family archive contains many of Fitzgerald’s books. I wrote that sentence as flatly as I could, but in fact it makes my biographer’s pulse race wildly. This is the second time in my life I have been given access to such an extraordinary source of knowledge about my subject. I had the good fortune to look at all that remains of Edith Wharton’s...
March 2010
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“Hordes of artists throw their arms around their melancholy as though it were the...”
– The Second Pass quotes this post by Gordon Marino from the New York Times blog on insomnia, called All-Nighters. Of course.
Have just about finished the Patrick White bio by David Marr, a landmark work in Australian letters by any account. Large chunks of the novels were written at night, after... 