Author Archives: Charles Lambert

Time and money

I have Tom Raworth to thank for leading me to this as well, by Ed Dorn: Beau Coup For the capitalist, time is money(he bets by the hour, lately by the minute)For the artist money is time For more by … Continue reading

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Books and covers

This, from Tom Raworth’s blog, is too good to miss.

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On Chesil Beach: a melancholy, long, withdrawing roar…

I’ve just been reading the extract printed in today’s Guardian from the new Ian McEwan novel, to be published next month, and it seems to confirm a tendency that first became evident in Atonement and, alas, all too explicit in … Continue reading

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I’ve fallen in love with John Callahan

You can find more (and even more gleefully offensive) animations of this sort here.

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Gaultier makes career leap

An incentive, if it’s needed, to visit John Callahan’s site. You’ll find the cartoon to the right under Hate Mail from America. In this specific case the hate mail is from from Dale K., Plantation, who doesn’t like the cartoon … Continue reading

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Women in wartime (2)

If you’d like to see more of Patrizia Casamirra’s extraordinary collection of photographs of women in wartime (in Argentina, Bosnia, Guatemala, Palestine and Rwanda), get hold of a copy of this week’s Internazionale. And don’t miss the cartoon on p. … Continue reading

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O. Henry Prize Stories 2007

Well, here it is! It’s got stories by William Trevor, Alice Munro, Ariel Dorfman, Justine Dymond, Eddie Chuculate, Vu Tran, Richard McCann, Joan Silber, Yannick Murphy, Tony D’Souza, Rebecca Curtis, Brian Evenson, Sana Krasikov, Bay Anapol, Jan Ellison, Adam Haslett, … Continue reading

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Elton speaks out

Threatened by homophobes in Tobago, Elton John has been saying some important things recently. You can find out more in this article from today’s Independent, but I’d like to draw your attention to this bit: Mr Hernandez has publicly accused … Continue reading

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Just a taste of what you can see…

… on the blog of a dear friend and someone I’ve known all her life. You’ll find more at Erranti Erotici Eretici.

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Insults: fascist style

One of Berlusconi’s house newspapers, Il Giornale, published an interview last week with the man responsible for Tourism and Sport in Lombardy, the region that includes Milan and is still controlled by the centre-right alliance, such as it is. Piergianni … Continue reading

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