The Independent (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Sir Andrew Motion, former UK Poet Laureate, will serve as Chair of the judges for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, according to an annoncement November 18.
Austenprose (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
When the new Austen literary tome A Truth Universally Acknowledged edited by Susannah Carson started off with a foreword by Harold Bloom the famous American writer, literary critic and current Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University, I was more than a bit anxious fearing the book would be over my head. Firstly, I [...]
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
A press release from the Brontë Parsonage Museum : SARAH WATERS IN HAWORTH Novelist Sarah Waters will be making a visit to Haworth this month, to speak about her work as part of the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s contemporary arts programme. The talk takes place on Saturday 28 November at 6pm at the West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth , and is part of a special day of creative writing events...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
It was probably Somerset Maugham who pointed out that there are only about half-a-dozen stories in the history of literature, and writers keep recycling them in different forms. In a world of finite resources, the imagination tends to run dry, so there can only be that many original ideas. It is understandable that art, like literature, must also draw its sustenance from an established repertory of...
About Last Night (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong just got a rave from Shelf Awareness: Daily Enlightenment for the Book Trade, an...
amdram.co.uk (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Being performed by The Hampstead Players in London
The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Richard W. Fisher The Current State of the Economy and a Look to the Future (With Reference to William ‘Sidestroke’ Miles, W. Somerset Maugham, Don Ameche and Kenneth Arrow) Remarks before the [...]
Hayden's Ferry Review Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
I'm not one for titles. I appreciate witty ones but I usually find them to be functionally descriptive or useful as mere labels to distinguish one story from another. This probably apocryphal anecdote about Somerset Maugham's advice to a young writer about how to title his recently finished novel comes to mind:"Does it have drums in it?""No, sir.""Does it have bugles in it?""No,...
NY's Funniest Rabbi (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
"When I’m asked by fellow air passengers what I do for a living and reply, “I write poems,” the reaction is often a startled smile, as though they’re thinking Homer! Dante! Milton! (At least that’s what I’m thinking they’re thinking.) And then comes the lean-in, the furrowed brow, the voice thick with compassion as my new friend says, “But there...
Down the avenue (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
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About Last Night (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The man who made The Letter possible died a few weeks ago, though the news has only just been released....
The Fill in the Gaps 100 Project (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Gah, I've just realised how long it's been since I last checked in here, and how slack I've been about both reading from my list and writing about what I've read. Crossing off my reads from the last couple of months just now, I was pleasantly surprised to find that I'd read a couple from my list by accident -- and then unpleasantly surprised to find that I couldn't remember anything about some of the...
About Last Night (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Amazon.com has chosen Pops as one of the ten best biographies of 2009. To see the full list, go here....
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
"It is much better to read books of travel than to travel oneself," truly said the greatest of travel writers, quoted by Pico Ayer in his appreciation — The Perfect Traveler . His Collected Short Stories, Vol. 4 were essential reading for me thiteen years ago, living in what was once British Malaya , the setting for many of the tales. Subscribe in a reader
World Hum (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
He was cool, steady and prone to breaking rules. Pico Iyer celebrates the life and work of Somerset Maugham.
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