Monthly Archives: December 2008

Seventeen years

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Earlier this year I wrote a brief post about a man called Giuliano Ferrara. Ferrara really isn’t that interesting, except as an over-exposed example of chronic brown-nosing that would take some beating even in Italy, and I wouldn’t bring him … Continue reading →

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This is all we need

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Charles Lambert

I worried about this some time ago. It looks as though I was right to be worried.  (From 3 quarks daily) Sorry, you need to click on the graph to see it properly – I can’t make it shrink to fit…

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French Lesson

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Charles Lambert
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Christmas spirit: an antidote

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Popbitch has made me laugh and given me a fair number of things to talk – and blog – about over the past few years. They now have a book out, with some of the choicest material to have graced … Continue reading →

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Last blast before Christmas

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Charles Lambert

John Self has done my Something Rich and Strange virtual book tour proud on his Asylum blog, where I rub shoulders with some of my favourite writers, such as James Kelman and, barely a spit away, Penelope Fitzgerald. It’s thrilling … Continue reading →

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Herman Dune: My Home is Nowhere Without You

Posted on December 15, 2008 by Charles Lambert
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A Christmas suggestion

Posted on December 13, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Books. Because a scented candle never changed anybody’s life……

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Everything I Have is Blue

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Charles Lambert

I’ve just finished reading the anthology Everything I Have is Blue (helpfully subtitled: Short Fiction by Working-class Men about More-or-less Gay Life). It’s edited by Wendell Ricketts, who also contributes a gripping short story of his own and a final, … Continue reading →

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Nel mezzo del cammin

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Five down, five to go. The latest leg of my Something Rich and Strange tour is posted today on Vanessa Gebbie’s News. I’ve been a fan of Vanessa’s work for as long as I’ve been blogging (and here’s the proof), well … Continue reading →

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Lamed vovnik

Posted on December 6, 2008 by Charles Lambert

This comes from a very moving article by David Horovitz, in memory of his daughter, Sarah.  In Jewish lore there is a legend of the lamed vovniks, the thirty-six just men on whom the existence of the world depends (Sarah would … Continue reading →

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