Gawker (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Author and recent Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing is famously cranky and outspoken. She says what she wants! (She doesn't give a damn about the Nobel or any other prize. See?) She's 88 and, as Time...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Almost 30 years ago, his novel Midnight's Children saw off the competition to win the Booker Prize. Today, Sir Salman Rushdie did it again, beating all previous Booker winners including the Nobel laureates Doris Lessing, J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer to carry away a one-off literary award celebrating the Booker's 40th anniversary.
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Gloriously salty bitch and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing gave an interview to Time and she was hilariously cranky as usual. "As you get older, you don't get wiser," she says. "You get irritable."... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Time (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Nearly ninety, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing refuses to play the role of Britain's elder literary stateswoman
Trashionista (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Goodness, there is so much information on Doris Lessing swimming about I'm having a hard time condensing it. To make things simple I'll begin at the beginning. Doris was born in Persia (now Iran) in 1919 to British parents. When she was six they moved to Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Her mother and father are the subject of her latest novel Alfred & Emily. Apparently her mother had rigid regimes and...
Rock The Truth (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
" Will the Mossad Assassinate Obama? " "Ever since the Middle Ages, there has always been one act which has been strictly prohibited. It is forbidden to speak of the death of the King. British Communist and Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing is 88 years old, and has either decided she's old enough to disregard the taboo, or else she's gone senile and has forgotten this taboo exists. Lessing told an interviewer...
Times emit (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
BBC - Radio 4 - Woman’s Hour -The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing - SEOmoz | Beginner’s Guide to SEO - Single Page Version - Aha. Note to self. Direct clients here. Diego Ulrich - Yes. Nice letterpress work on the history of the book from St Martins degree show. Seth’s Blog: Random thoughts about the [...]
booktwo.org (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook | A worldwide book group 2008 - “In October 2008, we are launching a world-wide, interactive reading group for Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook.” A new project from Apt (my employer) and if:book. We persuaded HarperCollins to allow us to publish the full text online. Very exciting. Making tracks | Irvine [...]
if:book (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
if:book readers may remember my excited post from last October when Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize. I had coincidentally re-read The Golden Notebook over the summer and when I realized that none of my younger colleagues had read it, or even knew anyone of their generation who had read it, I started musing about the possibilities of having readers from two generations reading it together, commenting...
Irish Blogs (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
noagebranding.com has signed up more than 1500 supporters. (1541 to be pedantic) > A short Harry Potter prequel was sold for €31,588 on Tuesday in aid of Dyslexia Action and English PEN. (Irish Times) You can read JK Rowling’s story as well as shorts from Lauren Child, Neil Gaiman, Doris Lessing, Irvine Welsh, Michael Rosen, Tom Stoppard, Richard Ford, Nick Hornby Margaret Atwood and more, handwriting...
Electric Spec Editor Blog (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
I can't resist linking to the Waterstone (British bookstore chain) postcards. They say "To celebrate the National Year of Reading, 13 world-class authors including JK Rowling, Doris Lessing, Neil Gaiman and Irvine Welsh have told us their story, and we'd love you to tell us yours." Personally, I loved the Rowling and Gaiman stories! Click them all out here. Which is your favorite? :)
The Herald (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
An 800-word prequel to JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series has sold for £25,000 at auction. The snippet was penned by the author on two sides of an A5 sheet and donated along with similar cards by Irvine Welsh, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood and Nick Hornby.
Jan's and John's Peripatetic Advent (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
We're in London, coninues... Yesterday we went to lunch at Doris Lessing's house. It was just a few people, most of whom we've met before, including our friends Ramsay and Gill. Doris always has the most interesting guests at her...
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature last year, I wasted no time in getting hold of one of her books: The Golden Notebook , as it was the only one they had in my local bookshop. I then wasted even less time reading it …by which I mean I didn’t bother. It seemed so long (”But novels - they’re all long, aren’t they? They’re all so long ,” as my namesake put it in Martin Amis’s Money...
Moderato (Free subscription) | 30/05/2008
One may write a life in five volumes, or in a sentence. How about this? Alfred Tayler, a vigorous and healthy man, was wounded badly in the First World War, tried to live as if he were not incapacitated, illnesses defeated him, and at the end of a shortened life he was begging, “You put [...]
