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NY Diary 3: Thomas Hardy’s ‘I look into my glass’
Phil reciting 'I look into my glass' by Thomas Hardy in Sarge's Deli 548 3rd Avenue. Not Large's - Sarges!…
NY Diary 2: Of Unicorns and Mary Poppins
Reader editor Philip Davis has been in New York promoting his new book, a biography of Bernard Malamud. He has…
Mersey Minis Launch: Number 5, Leaving
Fans of the popular diminutive book series Mersey Minis--mentioned here before--will be pleased to hear about the launch of book…
Links We Liked for October 30, 2007
This week's Links We Liked has the smell of the scriptorium. First up is an amazing post about a robot…
Vote For Books
Jane Davis, Director of The Reader organisation exhorts us to Vote For Books in the Radio 3 People's Choice, part…
NY Diary 1: Lint
Featuring Reader editor Philip Davis on 6th Avenue with our Spy from NY, Enid Stubin, she removing the lint from…
Featured Anthology – Oxford Poets 2007 – Hugh Dunkerley
The last poet to feature in this series is Hugh Dunkerley, a teacher at the University of Chichester and currently…
Mersey Care Reads Update
In her piece a few weeks ago, Get Into Reading project worker Mary Weston introduced the Mersey Care Reads project,…
Featured Anthology: Oxford Poets 2007 – Saradha Soobrayen
Saradha Soobrayen is a literary facilitator and Poetry Editor of Chroma: A LGBT Literary Journal. She received an Eric Gregory…
Recommended Reads: Megan Abbott’s Die A Little
Megan Abbott. Die A Little Simon and Schuster, 2005. Nineteen-fifties Hollywood has a seedy glamour that, half a century later,…
Featured Anthology: Oxford Poets 2007 – Kieron Winn
Today's poem comes from Kieron Winn, a freelance teacher and poet. He says of 'Mountain Water', "the final rhyme would…
Book At Breakfast Invitation 10th and 11th November
The Reader in association with BBC Radio 3 is running two "Book at Breakfast" events on 10th and 11th November…
