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Imagine… Doris Lessing
Last night, BBC 1 broadcast a tribute programme about Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. Presented…
Readers’ Day at Brindley Arts Centre May 17th, 2008
This coming Saturday (17th May),The Reader Organisation working with the award-winning Brindley Arts Centre in Runcorn, presents another of its highly enjoyable…
Blake Morrison agrees to be Chair of The Reader Organisation Board
Recently, The Reader Organisation has established itself as a company limited by guarantee and is applying for charitable status. This…
Links We Liked for 7th May, 2008 “Shakespeare Edition”
A couple of weeks ago Jen Tomkins wrote a post about 'dumbing down Shakespeare'. It turned out to be one…
‘Dumbing down’ Shakespeare: to be or not to be?
A call from the University's press office at noon on a Friday is not a particularly usual occurrence. 'We're after…
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Events
News today from Wirral Libraries that Roger Lyon from BBC Radio Merseyside will be appearing to talk about Robert Tressell's political…
Links We Liked for April 11, 2008
Tony Harrison is one of my favourite poets. His writing is muscular and forceful yet manages also to be moving…
The Rise and Rise of Bibliotherapy
Carly Townsend is a third year English Language and Literature student at the University of Liverpool. The French philosopher Charles…
Local Literary Events
There are some really fantastic literature events coming up over the next few weeks in the North West, including author readings,…
Links We Liked for April 2, 2008.
I've been away staying in a muddy field for a week or so and I spent most of Monday trying…
Reader Event: What Are You Reading?
Tomorrow (Saturday March 15th) heralds the grand re-opening of the Bluecoat arts centre in Liverpool. After a £12.5 million refurbishment…
Links We Liked for 12 March 2008
I've been teaching Nabokov's Lolita this week and came across Zembla, a superb website dedicated to the writer. There has…
