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“My darling, the wind falls in like stones from the whitehearted water and when we touch we enter touch entirely. No one’s alone. Men kill for this, or for as much.” The Truth the Dead Know – Anne...

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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler

Writing in the Author’s Note and Acknowledgments at the end of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, Therese Anne Fowler says she “tried to adhere as much as possible to the established particulars” of...

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LBMC: #2 Clerkenwell Tales Bookshop

Clerkenwell Tales is a charming little bookshop on Exmouth Market, off Rosebery Avenue. It has a beautiful teal shop-front and vibrant window displays, thoughtfully chosen to reflect the area’s...

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“In time of all sweet things beyond whatever mind may comprehend, remember seek (forgetting find) and in a mystery to be (when time from time shall set us free) forgetting me, remember me.” e. e....

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West’s World by Lorna Gibb

William Shaw – long-time editor of The New Yorker – once prophesised that Rebecca West would have a “lasting place in English literature”. Sadly, today, she is largely forgotten except among those...

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Writers On Writers

“Colette is a writer one should know something about.” James Salter “I started reading DeLillo pretty much when he started publishing. He was, and is, one of my heroes.” Ann Beattie “Milton…was a...

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The Book Of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon

“Part of growing up is learning, unfortunately, to develop loyalties to abstractions: the state, the nation, the idea,” writes Aleksandar Hemon in The Book of My Lives, “You pledge allegiance; you...

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Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

Joseph Conrad once said that there is nothing more fantastical than life. This, I think, is largely true if we exclude imagination from the discussion. We dare to imagine things that are beyond the...

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“We were together. I forget the rest.” We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d — Walt Whitman

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LBMC: #1 The Swedenborg Society Bookshop

I have somehow – in a bout of inadvertent spontaneity – set myself the challenge of visiting every independent bookshop on the London Bookshop Map. Upon making my London Bookshop Map Challenge...

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Zona by Geoff Dyer

“Nothing that happens in Stalker is an accident,” Geoff Dyer tells us in the first couple of pages of Zona, “and yet, at the same time, it is full of accidents.” This is one of the ways in which...

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Yet Another Top 10 List – Smutty Books

After yet another night on the town and a variety of noxious alcoholic medleys I woke up this morning feeling malcontent, maladroit and morbidly hungover. I was going to – very audaciously – vow to...

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Having a Coke with You is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona partly because in your...

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Yet Another Top 10 List – Bleak Books

Last week, The Daily Telegraph published a feature entitled Depressing Books Could Be Just What The Doctor Ordered, where the paper’s online Culture Editor, Martin Chilton, considered the appeal of...

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Intermission by Owen Martell

Writing about the death of a beloved in a letter, Edna St. Vincent Millay described his absence as “a hole in the world,” which she found herself “constantly walking around in the daytime, and...

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Writers On Writers

“Rebecca West was one of the giants and will have a lasting place in English literature.” William Shawn “I don’t like Dostoevsky. He is like the rat, slithering along in hate, in the shadows, and...

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“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness...

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Sheila Heti: Representing the feminist narrative with renewed resonance and verve

How Should A Person Be? is a question that has no definitive answer, varying from one individual to the next. The only absolute is that one should always be oneself because “everyone else is...

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Charles Nicholl: Dazzling the reader with his prose and infectious curiosity

“I have always found the details of history more interesting,” writes Charles Nicholl in the preface to his new collection of essays, “or anyway more evocative, than the larger perspectives of...

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Jenn Ashworth: A very gifted storyteller

The Friday Gospels is a book about a Mormon family awaiting the return of their son, Gary, from a pilgrimage to Salt Lake City, where he’s been studying as a missionary for two years. Although...

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“The lights must never go out/The music must always play.”

Here’s hoping the lights never go out and the music always plays in 2013! Happy New Year!

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Nicholas Royle: Gripping, innovative and fluent

Nicholas Royle’s First Novel is a bit of a misnomer because in fact it is his seventh. The title, however, is integral to the book whose protagonist Paul Kinder is obsessed with literary debuts....

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Favourite Reads – 2012

Allen Ginsberg by Steve Finbow Finbow is a resolutely straight-shooting biographer who treats his subject with complete candour, examining Ginsberg’s neuroses, his guilt over his mad mother, his...

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“In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.” On Love – Marguerite Duras

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Robert Bird: A diligent and enthusiastic biographer

Fyodor Dostoevsky was an enigmatic man. Sigmund Freud, for example, writes Robert Bird in his book on the famous Russian discovered “four distinct faces for Dostoevsky, the creative artist, the...

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Writers On Writers

”Hart Crane’s poems are profound and deep-seeking.” Eugene O’Neill “Meades is a national treasure – original, quirky, fearless and often quite right.” Nigel Jones “Buarque’s the real deal,...

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“To love another is something like prayer and it can’t be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.” Admonitions to a Special Person – Anne Sexton

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“Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise.”...

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Charlie Campbell: Keeps the reader amused, informed and regaled

“This is essentially a book about stupidity,” writes Charlie Campbell in the introduction to Scapegoat, his book about the cultural history of blame. In the book, Campbell explores a particular...

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Eduardo Halfon: A gifted storyteller

The writer of The Polish Boxer is also its narrator or at least the two men share the same name, the same experiences and the same history. Are they in fact the same man? The reader is left to draw...

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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler

LBMC: #2 Clerkenwell Tales Bookshop

Seminal Lines

West’s World by Lorna Gibb

Writers On Writers

The Book Of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon

Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

Seminal Lines

LBMC: #1 The Swedenborg Society Bookshop

Zona by Geoff Dyer

Yet Another Top 10 List – Smutty Books

Seminal Lines

Yet Another Top 10 List – Bleak Books

Intermission by Owen Martell

Writers On Writers

Seminal Lines

Sheila Heti: Representing the feminist narrative with renewed resonance and verve

Charles Nicholl: Dazzling the reader with his prose and infectious curiosity

Jenn Ashworth: A very gifted storyteller

“The lights must never go out/The music must always play.”

Nicholas Royle: Gripping, innovative and fluent

Favourite Reads – 2012

Seminal Lines

Robert Bird: A diligent and enthusiastic biographer

Writers On Writers

Seminal Lines

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Charlie Campbell: Keeps the reader amused, informed and regaled

Eduardo Halfon: A gifted storyteller

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Seminal Lines

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler

LBMC: #2 Clerkenwell Tales Bookshop

Seminal Lines

West’s World by Lorna Gibb

Writers On Writers

The Book Of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon

Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

Seminal Lines

LBMC: #1 The Swedenborg Society Bookshop

Zona by Geoff Dyer

Yet Another Top 10 List – Smutty Books

Seminal Lines

Yet Another Top 10 List – Bleak Books

Intermission by Owen Martell

Writers On Writers

Seminal Lines

Sheila Heti: Representing the feminist narrative with renewed resonance and verve

Charles Nicholl: Dazzling the reader with his prose and infectious curiosity

Jenn Ashworth: A very gifted storyteller

“The lights must never go out/The music must always play.”

Nicholas Royle: Gripping, innovative and fluent

Favourite Reads – 2012

Seminal Lines

Robert Bird: A diligent and enthusiastic biographer

Writers On Writers

Seminal Lines

Seminal Lines

Charlie Campbell: Keeps the reader amused, informed and regaled

Eduardo Halfon: A gifted storyteller

dansar omkring. dansaromkring.blogg.se

Dadanoias's Weblog dadanoias.net

Digital Revolve digitalrevolve.com/blog

Ballettschule Luzern Picture Book ballettschuleluzern.blo...

Sky - book arts and design sky-n.blogspot.com

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