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1 day ago ago from Rumpio's Blog
I heard someone recommend the recent Sebastian Faulks’s James Bond book and decided that if they thought it was very good then I would probably like it too. Apparently it has gone down well in the Bond circles. I have heard people in the past refer to Sebastian Faulks in tones of admiration so I figured this was a good thing. Rather in the same way in which people are referring to an upcoming Doctor Who episode written by Michael ...
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1 hour, 48 minutes ago ago from MostlyFiction Book Reviews
Book Quote: “What are you, if you’re not a jazz player?” he says. But only in my innermost dreams am I still a jazz player. In the real world—when I don’t have my face entirely wrapped in bandages the way I do now—I’m just a jobbing tenor man, in reasonable demand for studio work, or when a band’s lost their regular guy. If it’s pop they want, it’s pop I play. R&B? Fine. Car commercials, the walk-on theme for a talk show, I’ll do it. I’m a ...
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5 hours ago ago from THE HYDRA
The eminence of James Wood as a literary critic is rarely questioned; a few years ago the upstarts at N+1 (the McSweeney's of the East), tried to do just that and ended up embroiled in a rhetorical chess match that they devoted whole issues to, whether that was resolved is anyone's guess. In his latest attack Wood harpoons the newest novel of Paul Auster by beginning his review as a parody of all of Auster's plots. A small nugget from the ...
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10 hours ago ago from English 431
The infamous paper posting... Nabokov the Necromancer There are many terms for dead people who have come back to the land of the living such as, vampires, zombies, ghouls, excetra, excetra, but what of the people who came back to life were just as normal as you or I? Of the three Nabokov novels we read, many of the main characters were dead before the story even began. To name a few: John Shade, Lolita Haze, Humbert Humbert, and Hugh ...
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22 hours ago ago from Quote Unquote
Further to my 25 November post on the Listener ’s 19 November article detailing the plagiarism in Witi Ihimaera’s new novel The Trowenna Sea , the 12 December issue lists more examples, all of them pretty blatant. (The preview is here : the full story will be online on 26 December. The print edition says that all 34 examples of uncredited “borrowings” are on the website but I can’t find them.) So far, so entertaining for those of us not ...
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