Monthly Archives: April 2008

Pride

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Recognise this fat buffoon on the left? (Not Berlusconi, the one with glasses.) There’s no reason why you should unless you’re an Italian abroad and received some electoral bumph from his personalissimo party, Italiani nel Mondo – and, I hope, … Continue reading →

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Charlton Heston and, er, Morrissey

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Some of Charlton Heston’s reactionary political antics during the last few decades of his life probably warrant one of my Good Riddance posts, but that’s not all there was to the man. This photograph, taken in 1961, shows another, earlier, … Continue reading →

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Proof…

Posted on April 7, 2008 by Charles Lambert

(Whoops! Sorry. Wrong photograph…) …that Clarissa and I weren’t reading to an empty room at my launch last week.

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Andrew Crozier 1943-2008

Posted on April 7, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Of all the ‘Cambridge’ poets, Andrew Crozier was the one who touched me most often, and most consistently. Ferry Press was central to the whole enterprise. I loved his intelligence and his eye, and I’m sorry to see him go. … Continue reading →

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Shelf life

Posted on April 6, 2008 by Charles Lambert

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 website has been doling out its authors with such parsimony that I was beginning to wonder whether it would ever get to me (and Susan Straight, and Adam Haslett, who may have written my … Continue reading →

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Debord, de trop

Posted on April 5, 2008 by Charles Lambert

ooI’m in England for a few days to see my mother. My visit’s coincided with Naomi Campbell’s recent tantrum at Heathrow’s disaster-struck T5 (luggage to Milan to be sorted…’) and, less excitingly, the return to television of someone called Nigel … Continue reading →

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