Author Archives: Charles Lambert

Israel Kamakawiwo’ole- Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Charles Lambert
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Omega Minor

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Charles Lambert

I’ve just finished reading Omega Minor by the Belgian novelist Paul Verhaeghen, a cognitive psychologist now working in the States. Originally published in Dutch, this enormous novel – 700 pages of closely-printed text – was translated into English by its … Continue reading →

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Think Pink

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Charles Lambert

I’ve just found out that Think Pink Radio of Chicago noticed my Cyclone visit to Jockohomo. Think Pink is “is dedicated to promoting queers that do things on their own–people who love this world and want to be themselves in … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year!

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Charles Lambert
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Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Charles Lambert

What a powerful and wonderful book this is. In deliberately toned-down and undemonstrative prose, Shearman takes the lives of average people, suburbanites, office-workers, the patiently married, the mildly disappointed, and, with one single fundamental shift of perspective (for want of … Continue reading →

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Intimacy

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Some weeks before Christmas, well past the watershed, RAI2, one of the Italian state TV channels, showed Brokeback Mountain. Well, actually, it didn’t. It showed a version of Brokeback Mountain shorn of its moments of intimacy. Brokeback Mountain without intimacy is another … Continue reading →

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Hohum

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Charles Lambert
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Warped!

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Charles Lambert

A very interesting review of The Scent of Cinnamon, by literary blogger and novelist, the Gay Recluse (aka Matthew Gallaway), compares me with Keith Banner, a favourite of mine as regular readers of this blog will know, but someone whose work … Continue reading →

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21

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Charles Lambert

I’d like to welcome a new online literary journal, entitled 21. Produced by Edge Hill University, it describes itself as : “a peer-reviewed, online critical journal exploring contemporary and innovative fiction. We are interested in cutting edge fiction from the … Continue reading →

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What Lawrence might have called a pansy

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Charles Lambert

You can find the first poem of mine to be published  in the last few years – by anyone other than me, that is – on Fiona Robyn’s endlessly delightful site, a handful of stones. Thank you, Fiona, for rescuing me from … Continue reading →

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