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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Disturbing stock
Leonie Jackson, of Waterstones Walsall, has this to say about Little Monsters: I really enjoyed this book although it is slightly disturbing, particularly the relationship between the protagonist and her ‘uncle Joey’. The main story is set during the Second … Continue reading
Conjugation
This is one of a collection of doctored electoral posters that you can find at the la Repubblica site. A lot of them are funny in a fairly heavy-handed way, though you’ll need Italian to appreciate them, but this one … Continue reading
Posted in berlusconi, italy, politics
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Monkey business
The logo of the brand (sic) new Democratic Party here in Italy has been reminding me of something for some time. I realised what it was today. As if that wasn’t enough, the woolly monkey now used to advertise PG … Continue reading
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Little Monsters – review
My first customer review on Amazon, and it’s a good one. It begins: Little Monsters starts off with a tremendous bang, grabbing the reader’s attention with its first sentence, and then manages somehow to maintain that effect on pretty much … Continue reading
Posted in little monsters, review, shameless self-promotion
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Interview
John Self, the man behind the wonderful and highly regarded literary blog Asylum, recently interviewed me about Little Monsters and writing in general, which was both an honour and great fun. You can see what he asked, and how I … Continue reading
Gloss on previous posts
The last three posts are fairly cryptic, I admit, and require some knowledge not only of Italian but also of the retailing practices of UK barbers in the 60s. The photographs were taken in the delightful town of Priverno, within … Continue reading
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Update to last post, plus NY writers’ reading
Alternatively you can click here. You get all the text but, alas, no author photograph… Just back from a very interesting evening listening to four New York writers from the New School MFA programme in Fiction Writing at Rome’s John … Continue reading
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