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Thoughts on the Kindle
Being in the UK I haven't yet managed to get my hands on one of Amazon's new Kindle ebook devices.…
Featured Anthology: Staying Alive – David Constantine
As well as being a regular contributor to The Reader, David Constantine is a freelance writer, poet and translator. Possessing…
Twitterlit: First Lines of Books
Among writers of popular fiction it is widely believed that if book shop browsers are not hooked by the end…
Featured Anthology: Staying Alive – Anne Stevenson
Anne Stevenson, a critic of Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop and a poet herself, was born in Cambridge in 1933…
Featured Anthology: Staying Alive – Denise Levertov
The first poem to feature from our second featured anthology, Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times, is 'Living' by…
BBC TV: Cranford
Just a heads up to remind all our readers that the first episode in the BBC's much anticipated five part…
The Death of the Book
On Monday the online retailer Amazon is tipped to release its electronic reading device known as the Kindle. This is…
Links We Liked for 16 November 2007
It's been a rough week on writers. First there was Norman Mailer, then Ira Levin. The death of Mailer, as…
Recommended Reads: The Secrets of Harry Bright
Steven Powell has an M.A. in Victorian Literature from the University of Liverpool, and is currently studying for a Literature…
Recommended Reads: ‘Adlestrop’, by Edward Thomas
By Julie-ann Rowell. Julie-ann is a poet whose first pamphlet collection, Convergence, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her new…
BBC Free Thinking Festival: Going Sane
Hands up... are you sane? (A few hands hover in the air)... Insane? (A similar number of hands are thrusted…
Noel Godfrey Chavasse 90th Anniversary
Noel Godfrey Chavasse died of his wounds at Branhoek, Belgium on August 4, 1917, aged 33. The son of Francis…
