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Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Best: x American: x Short: 14 Story: x From Crazyhorse, Karen Brown’s “Galatea” is a fluttering into the life of Margaret Mary Bell. A college student in upstate New York, she discovers a romantic allure for William after meeting at a park. It’s a relationship of need and William’s past is disclosed in segments throughout the [...]
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Jay Currie (Free subscription) | yesterday
But censorship remains. A whole generation of playwrights has grown old without the amendments of the blue pencil, but the limits placed on our speech now come not from the government, but from our own fear of repercussion in the face of religious extremism. Artists have a right — and sometimes a duty — to [...]
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Adman cometh: author recalls his early career in advertising
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Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
“…America has become fearful of late, its doors have not been open to the world’s huddled masses in the old, generous way, but still the world’s stories somehow continue to make their journeys to America, and metamorphose, with remarkable ease, into new American tales.” Every year I think it would be a good idea to read [...]
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The winner of the Man Booker prize is announced next Tuesday. As I haven't read any of the six books on the short list I am perfectly placed to tip the winner. In the business of betting on literary prizes, there is nothing more contaminating than knowing too much about the runners and riders. In other words, actually reading the books.
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Infidels Are Cool (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
A controversial book about the child bride of islam's "prophet" Muhammad has been published in the US, despite a major American publisher punking out, and a British publisher having his house attacked by "peaceful" muslims in protest.
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Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
A controversial novel about the Prophet Mohammad's child bride was rushed early to U.S. stores yesterday, just days after the office of the book's British publisher was fire-bombed.
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Christian Hate? (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
A humbling confession: I spent a day or so last week in the grip of a conspiracy theory of my own creation. How it happened: on Wednesday I read a post on Christopher Howse's Telegraph blog, with the title 'Salman Rushdie taught liberals to hate Islam'. Mr Howse is a man whose writing I have on occasion admired. On this occasion I thought to myself 'this man has taken leave of his senses'. It was that...
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Times of India (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Half a dozen celebrated authors of Indian origin, including Salman Rushdie, were scheduled to speak in support of Barack Obama at an event organized by the SAFO group.
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Janet Charlton's Hollywood (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
It is a rare movie that you walk out of laughing AND smarter than when you walked in. Bill Maher's documentary "Religulous" is that movie. He asks bold and pertinent questions of religious leaders around the world. And he...
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Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Cruggleton Kirk was the magical setting for Sara Maitland's premiere reading from A Book Of Silence. Surrounded by candles, with only the wind whistling through the surrea
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
GEORGIE: Mum’s very over the top. She really enjoys having fun and being silly — she’s a child at heart. She was always different from the other mums, and a lot more fun. Mum always wanted to join in. When my friends came round, we’d play the shark game, with Mum chasing us all around the house for hours.
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Three men charged with plotting to attack the publisher of a novel about the Prophet Muhammad's child bride made a brief court appearance Friday after being charged with plotting to damage the offices of Gibson Square publishers.
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Telegraph Blogs : Guests (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
In his 1987 the-Booker-isn't-what-it-used-be article , Julian Barnes complains about the increasing accuracy of the odds on the winner; they had become "a great deal meaner since some of us cleaned up on Salman Rushdie at 14-1". Prowling the files for how we covered Midnight's Childre...
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Blog Meridian (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Over at The New Republic's blog The Plank, there's a very odd post by Max Fisher on why U.S. writers have been overlooked for the Nobel Prize for Literature. After citing committee chair Horace Engdahl's contention that U.S. writers are, in essence, too provincial in their concerns to be taken seriously by the world literary community, Fisher offers up another possibility: The committee doesn't
