Author Archives: Charles Lambert

Poet on fire escape

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Charles Lambert

The best thing – indeed the only redeeming feature – of a snippy and essentially homophobic review in the New York Times of the new Selected Poems of Frank O’Hara (edited by Mark Ford) is this photograph, taken in 1958 … Continue reading →

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(Anti-) conspiracy theorists swarm at harmless blog

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Charles Lambert

The numbers of visitors to this blog increased exponentially yesterday. A wave of sudden interest in my new collection of stories, to be published by Salt in October? (Pre-ordering facilities available here.) Well, no. Nothing so flattering, or wise. The … Continue reading →

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A piece of shit

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Charles Lambert

A salutary piece by Anne Enright on how we love – and hate – what we write can be read here. Struggling with what is unlikely to be the final draft of my new novel, I feel what she says … Continue reading →

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Good riddance to …

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Charles Lambert

… Jesse Helms. Is he wearing lipstick in this photograph? Or did his mouth always look like a badly sliced tomato? “Just think about it – homosexuals, lesbians – disgusting people – marching in our streets, demanding all sorts of … Continue reading →

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Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Police last night said the men might have died for the sake of two handheld games consoles.

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FAO interview

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Charles Lambert

The following interview appeared in FAO In Touch, the in-house newsletter of the Food and Agriculture Organisation where I (and, coincidentally, Carol, the narrator of Little Monsters) work. FAO editor publishes critically acclaimed novel ‘I was in Turin and saw … Continue reading →

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Indecent? No, too much salt…

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Charles Lambert

This is the Heinz ad you won’t be seeing on television, because 200 people complained, so you may as well see it here. (This is four times the number of people who complained about Joan Rivers calling Russell Crowe a … Continue reading →

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The line of beauty

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Charles Lambert

I have The Age of Uncertainty to thank for pointing me to this fabulous clip. I wonder how many artists (in Dalì’s case, I use the word advisedly) would be recognised on the equivalent of What’s My Line? today. Damien … Continue reading →

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Summer reading

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Charles Lambert

If you’d like to know my views on holiday reading – and let’s face it, who wouldn’t? – you can find them on the Picador blog by clicking here. (I thought it might be nice to illustrate this post with … Continue reading →

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Something apt from Dover Beach

Posted on June 22, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Ian McEwan has just come out against Islamism*, as he calls it. I’m not sure what distinguishes Islamism from Islam, other than the generally derogatory aura created by the suffix ‘ism’, but that’s by-the-by. He’s quoted as saying: “I myself … Continue reading →

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