Poet laureate Andrew Motion has announced that it is 'a deep crime' never to have read key Shakespeare works, Paradise Lost or Great Expectations . That makes...
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Poet laureate Andrew Motion has announced that it is 'a deep crime' never to have read key Shakespeare works, Paradise Lost or Great Expectations . That makes...
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Oct 1, 2005 11:49 pm
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Just as I take delivery of the Daily Show DVD - "Indecision 2004" - brought by kind friends from the States, The Guardian profiles Jon Stewart , the only sane...
Some great paintings on David Shillinglaw's site , an artist with an exhibition currently going on in Islington, London. Some of it is a bit Basquiat , some of...
Dead Code: Ghosts of the Digital Age is the title of Jeff Noon 's 45-minute radio play for Radio 3's The Wire. It'll air next Thursday (6 October) starting at...
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Oct 4, 2005 6:26 pm
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On Channel 4 this coming Sunday there’s a three-hour documentary called The 50 Greatest Documentaries . It’s easy to predict what will top it – David...
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Oct 5, 2005 6:05 pm
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John Sutherland the Guardian spreads rumours about the possible demise of my favourite paper. But that's not the bad news: I've just renewed my subscription...
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Oct 5, 2005 8:31 pm
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Another reason I love living in Thailand - from today's Bangkok Post : Chirmsak's latest book blank The latest publication by Chirmsak Pinthong, a senator...
The Spike travel section kept growing, so I've now spun off its contents into two separate, purpose-built websites: Travelhappy.info for general backpacking /...
The website of David Sylvian's record label has been updated. Gone is the Flash-based maziness, which really brings the site's great look to the fore. Now that...
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Oct 6, 2005 12:27 pm
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Ready Steady Book has a rich and fascinating interview with the poet, critic and translator Michael Hofmann. I was surprised and perversely delighted to read...
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Oct 7, 2005 10:03 am
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On Monday, BBC Radio 3 will broadcast the world premiere of Voices , Harold Pinter's new dramatic work for radio, on the playwright's 75th birthday. You can...
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Oct 7, 2005 8:11 pm
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The Sharp Side has challenged other British litblogs to contribute their own selection of the top ten British novels since 1950. In the two lists provided,...
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Oct 8, 2005 2:50 pm
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From GK Darby: "The New Orleans Bookfair will go on as scheduled on October 29, 2005 at Barrister's Gallery 1724 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. From 10am to 6pm....
Boyd Tonkin doesn’t like the Booker Prize result. It doesn't take long to find out why. He has history with the chairman of judges John Sutherland as well as...
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Oct 11, 2005 10:03 am
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Great news about Harold Pinter winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. A sweet kick in the liberal's bollocks! Here he is introducing the man who should have...
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Oct 13, 2005 12:36 pm
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Does anyone have a handy list of lit magazines in the UK that pay for short story submissions? Someone just asked me about this and I realised I can't think of...
Peter Preston adds to David Baddiel’s and DJ Taylor's at the weekend. He can't understand why genre fiction is 'the poor relation' to 'literary fiction'. The...
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Oct 17, 2005 4:26 pm
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The rather good, wittily-entitled Sign and Sight website - 'Arts, Essays, Ideas from Germany' - has a long feature on Giorgio Agamben. It was posted in its...
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Oct 17, 2005 5:03 pm
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I was born and raised in the shadow of Nelson's flagship HMS Victory. The masts, seen from the ferry over the harbour, are a symbol of home. My...
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Oct 21, 2005 6:32 pm
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Just posted a new article about Sukhothai , Thailand's answer to Angkor Wat, on Travelhappy . More on Sukhothai: Spike | Google | Amazon UK | Amazon US |...
Me has written a review of Geoff Dyer's rather good new book about photography. It can be found at Spike's sweet rival Ready Steady Book . -- Posted by steve...
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Oct 26, 2005 8:11 am
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The looting of tombs and temples is still a huge problem in Cambodia, where the ancient temples of Angkor suffer repeated attacks from thieves. While the more...
The lead article in today’s TLS is enthusiastic about one of the most vile books to be published anywhere: Theodore Dalrymple's collection of hate-filled...
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Oct 27, 2005 7:44 pm
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Some ebay pimping - I'm selling my lovely stereo because I've finally accepted I'm not moving back to the UK anytime soon. It's currently in the loving care of...
Maud links to yesterday's blog and mentions that it's news to her that Theodore Dalrymple is a pseudonym. Apparently his real name is Anthony Daniels and he's...
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Oct 28, 2005 3:33 pm
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Couldn't get through this painfully slow - and painful to watch - flick starring Sean Penn. As Lindy put it: "OK, I get it - it's the story of man going slowly...
There's something about travelling that makes people really po-faced. Reading the Amazon reviews of Redmond O'Hanlon's 1983 classic Into The Heart Of Borneo ,...
"Earlier this year, a Shanghai online gamer was given a suspended death sentence for killing a fellow gamer when he found out the friend had sold his virtual...
Free New Books has updated with 4 more titles, if you're looking for some new reading matter. I think I need to get the RSS feed of that blog showing up on the...
