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Author Archives: Charles Lambert
Pansies
There’s an interesting piece in today’s Guardian CiF by Mark Lawson. Entitled How fiction lost the plot, it looks at the presumed sorry state of modern fiction publishing and runs through the usual suspects: cliquishness, discrimination, book prize juries descending … Continue reading
Posted in bookshops, dh lawrence, libraries, publishing
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Family values
Edi Vesco, the author, among many other things, of a guide to the Harry Potter novels for Italian fans, was murdered by her 18-year-old son last Tuesday. According to the son’s own account, he first tried to rape his mother, … Continue reading
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Great shoes
http://cdn.channel.aol.com/aolexd_widgets/widget.swf This comes from This Just In, via Monkey Magazine
Posted in gay, homophobia
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Blair-faced devotion
Well, Tony won’t be answering his elders and betters back any longer, I imagine, now that he’s finally thrown his mendacious lot in with Vatican Inc. It’s only a stone’s throw, by helicopter, to Tuscany, after all, and presumably he’ll … Continue reading
Posted in blair, pope, vatican
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Facts
Let’s start the year with a fanfare for rationalism. World-class scientists were asked what, if anything, had changed their minds by John Brockman, a New York literary agent and the man behind the site, Edge. All of them confessed, for … Continue reading
Posted in religion, revealed truth, science
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Memory
I don’t do New Year’s resolutions as a rule. Why set yourself up to be disappointed? Isn’t that the world’s job? But, watching The History Boys a few days ago (see earlier post) made me realise how few poems I … Continue reading
Posted in john clare, memory, poem
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The willies
The extraordinary Phil Cool does Terry Wogan. The real Terry Wogan. If anyone has a copy of Phil Cool doing Ronald Reagan (that’s right: the real Ronald Reagan), I hope they let me know.
A creative spring
In his Terminal note to Maurice, EM Forster writes that the novel was the direct result of a visit in 1913 to the ‘socialist and Whitmannic poet’ Edward Carpenter at Millthorpe. Forster comments: It must have been on my second … Continue reading
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