TMO review of Anne Enright’s ‘The wig my father wore’ – http://bit.ly/bbFXiL # rt @maudnewton Recordings of F. Scott Fitzgerald reading Shakespeare: http://bit.ly/cdBBpF (via @Condalmo) # Book Fox on the predictive power of book reviews http://bit.ly/bYJaAi # Lizzy Siddal is accepting questions for a Kader Abdolah interview, author of ‘House of the Mosque’ http://bit.ly/aLPoJZ # […]
Coming off the back of reading more than my fair share of European crime-fiction (culminating with Stieg Larsson’s posthumuous sales-phenomenon The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) – a genre where plot, reasonably enough, is tight and pragmatic, where the reader must above all else understand what’s happening – it was a palate-cleansing delight to dive […]
#Amis “But it was just the empty Echo of repetition, of a book rewritten; from his father still only silence” http://bit.ly/bi8Cbi # Powered by Twitter Tools.
‘Sleeping with John Updike’ – a short story by Julian Barnes http://bit.ly/7v5Z3b # BBC interview with ‘House of the Mosque’ author Kader Abdolah http://bit.ly/8ICtGQ # 50 Penguin authors were asked what their favourite book was, and four of them chose titles by… http://is.gd/6ZkhP RT @TheOrwellPrize # “often murders happen in the kitchen in the morning. […]
Edgar Allen Poe’s philosophy of furniture (via biblioklept and Roberto Bolaño http://bit.ly/6S5Vwr # Contrary to the expectations of some, the internet has boosted the written word – http://bit.ly/75spSe # A nice summary! RT @thecreativepenn The Future of Publishing: A Round Up from Experts http://short.to/13t1v via @tomcolvin RT @BiblioGeek # Evan Maloney remembers McCabe’s ‘The Butcher […]
Not since Snow White have mirrors been so vocal – the new Martin Amis novel ‘The Pregnant Widow’ http://bit.ly/4mHWua # ‘So who is Perkus Tooth anyway?’ – Jonathan Lethem answers http://bit.ly/7bAvO1 # Good interview with David Vann, over @writerspet http://bit.ly/4V4uBN # B.R.Myers is not impressed by the ‘strangled work-driven ways’ of E.Annie Proulx http://bit.ly/6iWtg4 # […]
About to start ‘House of the Mosque’ by Kader Abdolah. thanks @canongatebooks http://bit.ly/4yg5S8 # Finished Lauren Grodstein’s ‘A Friend of the Family’ – but can’t get it out of my head. A very fine novel. http://bit.ly/8UYJm0 # Colm Toibin Wins Costa Novel of 2009 for ‘Brooklyn’ http://bit.ly/6tqGcW # First novel read this year ‘ The […]
I don’t want to live in her world, but suspect that in fact I do. This is what makes her a great writer. http://bit.ly/5g7V7A # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Martin Amis interview – http://bit.ly/5CAjDb # Powered by Twitter Tools.
At first I put it down to my intoxicated state as I looked at the ad on the TV screen over the bar. Also, the sound was turned off. But I saw the ad again in a friend’s house and it really does go like this: a well-dressed man gets into a taxi where he […]
