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Bushmiller and Beckett letters going to auction
The cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller's letters were recently catalogued in preparation for auction and The American Reader has published several letters between Bushmiller and Samuel Beckett: Beckett and Bushmiller were born within nine months of each other (Bushmiller in 1905, Beckett … Continue reading
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a pile of stuff #33
City Lights Books has been around for 60 years. Party On!! Jeannette Winterson will get a shot at a cover version of The Winter's Tale. And Anne Tyler will follow up with her rendition of The Taming Of The Shrew. … Continue reading
Posted in Newsy stuff, Poetry, Web/Tech, Writing - curiosities
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the book that can’t wait: Argentinean publisher Eterna Cadencia adopts new writers before they disappear
Or as Bud Parr has said, read now (or never). The publishers of this anthology of Latin American writing wanted to draw attention to the very short life of new writing in our times. Using vanishing ink seemed like a … Continue reading
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portraits from the writers
A drawing of Alice by Lewis Carroll, from his personal illustrations for Alice In Wonderland. Charles Baudelaire's self-portrait. More writers' artworks can be seen in this post at the Imprint blog, including a fine rebus letter from Mark Twain … Continue reading
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The pile of stuff has migrated. Here is the latest.
Over at Cordite, Adam Ford tells us why he would like to have Thirty More Australian Poets. Margaret Atwood is sharing her writing online at Wattpad, a social writing site. "I didn't think they were going to disapprove," said Atwood. … Continue reading
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just call your life in
I promised James Bradley I would post this when he twittered in disbelief earlier this week that there are Twitter novels. I'm quoting from the first chapter of Alexandra Johnson's Leaving A Trace: On Keeping A Journal, the first chapter … Continue reading
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you can love the life you’re living
This meme requires me to attempt to describe my life, by title, in the books I've read so far in 2009. (Via Gwenda Bond.) Strikes me as something best attempted in the last quarter of the year. For sure. Describe … Continue reading
Posted in Readings by year, Writing - curiosities
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telling a terrible story and it doesn’t diminish his glory
'Bill always said examine the writer, not the man. But I am emotional and I can’t help examining both.' Bukowski, unplugged. Oh, man, it's good. Hurray for Maud Newton and her mighty blog. There are a couple more excerpts from … Continue reading
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visualise this
Times Online business correspondent Leo Lewis is looking forward to the upcoming publication of Das Kapital in a manga version in Japan in early December: Japanese publishers have historically used cartoons to explain thorny diplomatic relations with China, advanced wine-tasting … Continue reading
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do my dreaming and my scheming
This has to be one of the nicest posts in this series that I have read so far, along with Philip Hensher's, who may have sympathised with Kipling on the uses and abuses of a designated writing space. "We've been … Continue reading
Reeling and Writhing - The Archive 