The Digested Classic podcast: The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
John Crace condenses some classic suspense
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John Crace's digested read: Stephen Fry in America by Stephen Fry
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
John Crace's digested read: 'New Jersey is very working- class, so that won't detain me long and I drive to Pennsylvania for a cup of Twinings'
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The Digested Classic podcast: John Crace digests Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
John Crace digests Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
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John Crace's digested read: A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
John Crace's digested read: Brue had a bad weekend, weighed down by the usual sexual humiliation inflicted on Le Carré's lonely leading men by their wives
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John Crace's digested read: Indignation by Philip Roth
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
John Crace's digested read: 'This metafiction allows me to indulge my passion for discoursing on the horrors of death and goes some way to make you interested in my outcome'
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The Digested Read podcast: A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
John Crace digests A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
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The Digested Read of The Guardian's Digested Reads, by John Crace
Keith Ridgway's Blog (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
... I am a waste of everybody's time and I should be smeared in shit and left in an alley. Also, Jim Crace should sue me because for ages Keith Ridgway thought I was him, and became very depressed about the whole thing."
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John Crace's digested read: A Swim-on Part in the Goldfish Bowl by Carol Thatcher
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
John Crace's digested read: My parents were very focused on their work while we grew up but I was always content to be emotionally neglected
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John Crace: Just William is the wrong metaphor for Labour's Downfall
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
John Crace: Charles Clarke likens Blairite-Brownite in-fighting to a Richmal Crompton story, but Labour's bunker mentality is hardly comedy
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John Crace's digested read: Silks by Dick Francis and Felix Francis
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
John Crace's digested read: I decided to become a barrister after someone pointed out that jockeys wore silk and barristers took silk so they were quite similar really
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John Crace's digested read: Ever, Dirk: The Dirk Bogarde Letters
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
John Crace: 'Had to appeare at nasty Cannes Festivul ... I do detest Americans and Australians ... but it is luvvly to know one is ADORED'
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John Crace's digested read: The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
John Crace: 'I'm still down to my last six castles after having the French bitch to stay. But, hey, she gets the chop today. So all's well that ends well'
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Interview: Robin Wilson, mathematics professor on his passions and father
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Robin Wilson, mathematics professor tells John Crace about his many passions, and about his father, Harold
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Digested reads: Banned books
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
To mark Banned Books week, John Crace has condensed five forbidden fictions. Read them if you dare
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The question: Why don't men want to teach
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
John Crace: Primary schools have long been an almost entirely man-free zone, but research suggests that secondary schools could soon be heading the same way
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