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Reading Pillow
With time on her hands now she has handed the editorship of The Reader over to husband Philip Davis, Jane…
Free Thinking
BBC Radio 3 & Radio Merseyside’s Free Thinking Festival returns to Liverpool Free Thinking BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio…
Romanian Summer Diary 6
Saturday 4th August – Things I have seen in Romania A cow grazing by a brand new glass-plate…
William Faulkner and the End of Man
Like James Joyce, William Faulkner has an unjust reputation as a 'difficult' writer. Perhaps for this reason he is relatively…
Upcoming TV Adaptations
Angela Macmillan made contact to point out that the BBC is working on several interesting-looking TV adaptations of eighteenth and…
Booker Prize longlist announced
Judges have announced the titles longlisted for this year's Booker Prize for fiction. The prize is one of the world's…
Philip Roth Discusses Everyman
Philip Roth is one of my favourite writers; he is one of the few writers whose prose seems like it…
Pitmatic
Earlier in the week a dictionary of the lost language of Pitmatic was reviewed in The Guardian. Coming from a…
100 Years On The Road
This year is the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's famous rambling American epic, On The Road, but few people will…
Charles Simic–US Poet Laureate
The Guardian reports that Charles Simic has been named poet laureate of the United States by the Library of Congress.…
Romanian Summer Diary 5
Saturday 28th July--Busy days. The first British contingent taught their lessons, forged friendships, played their quick cricket in bewildered partnership…
Women Writers Before 1700
I came across this excellent site via Language Hat and thought it should be shared. It's a compilation of women's…
