It is the 250-year anniversary of the birth the great[est] poet, William Blake. Blake has a certain resonance on this blog. Can you tell what it is yet?
The Tyger
Tyger, Tyger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On […]
This blog is in mourning.
Mailer was one of the absolute titans of American Literature, and part of a generation that gave us Gore Vidal, Philip Roth, and the illusive Thomas Pynchon.
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Blogging friend Caroline, and her debut novel In Search of Adam, are doing very, very well.
Further proof of the power of blogging, ISoA has been promoted on the blogosphere. I can’t wait for my holiday, when I get chance to read it.
So, if you want to be in the know now, and find out why […]
It’s Monday, so it’s Charlie Brooker’s Guardian column. This week our angry young man is judging Richard Littlejohn’s new book… by its cover.
Here’s the money quote (ha!): -
A noble effort. But it doesn’t work. I can’t help noticing Littlejohn’s picture, even when my eyes are looking elsewhere, because his face smells - or at […]
Richard has dug out George Orwell’s “STATEMENT ON ‘NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR” and has reproduced it for your consumption, here.
Good work Richard. A true gem.
So it was Bush’s fault!
Yahoo has this shocking news:
NEW YORK - Captain America has undertaken his last mission — at least for now. The venerable superhero is killed in the issue of his namesake comic that hit stands Wednesday, the Daily News reported.
On the new edition’s pages, a sniper shoots down the shield-wielding hero as he leaves a courthouse, […]
It’s that new feature…
Top Ten Magazines
Private Eye – indispensable for the politically minded (and worth it just for the Street of Shame media pages)
The New Yorker – excellent if you have time on your hands; beautifully presented and insightful essays (see also Vanity Fair)
The New York Review of Books – wonderful, brilliant, unequalled
EDGE – […]
I popped to Asda over the weekend to stock up cough sweets and grim bronchial mix, and I spotted Dave Hill’s book The Adoption on the shelves (half a dozen copies too). God knows how much of the £3.73 Dave gets, but when you’re in Asda, you have either made it big time or […]
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I need to be more proactive. I need to get out there into the world and sell myself (to the highest bidder, natch). I will never be able to earn a crust as a writer if I plod on as I am. I need to badger editors and become a pest to […]
