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Times Online (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
William Miller was a publisher who established Panther Books as one of the leading producers of popular paperbacks in the 1960s. Determined to meet competition from Penguin, its larger rival, head on, Miller published authors including Fay Weldon, Beryl Bainbridge and Len Deighton. He subsequently published The Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort’s ground-breaking sex manual, and in his later life familiarity...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Innovative editor, publisher and literary agent with a love of the good life William Miller, who has died aged 75, lived a life of many passions, but perhaps the most enduring of these was to try to make "good books popular and popular books good". And, first as an editor, then as a publisher, and finally as an agent, that is what Miller did. His first job was as an editor under Frank Rudman,...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Even those with no interest in Captain Scott's polar expeditions will be moved by the lyricism and depth of emotion in this re-enactment of his doomed Terra Nova venture, in which he led a party of five to the South Pole in 1912, only to be forestalled by a Norwegian crew.
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Reading matters (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
BBC Radio 4 is carrying out an interesting exercise as part of its Open Book programme. It asked 10 British/Irish authors to nominate the books that they "feel most deserve to be re-read and reinstated onto our bookshelves". The list of neglected books, which is being discussed on radio, looks like this: William Boyd nominated The Polyglots by William Gerhardie Susan Hill nominated The Rector's...
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Life must be filled up (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Thanks to Susie Vereker , I’ve just read this list of the 50 Most Annoying Things About the Internet. I’m sure people could add to this. Now for a good thing about the internet: reading people’s book recommendations. Not necessarily the latest books, but older, perhaps out of print books which the writer loves. Radio 4’s A Good Read has been doing this for years; guests introduce...
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The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
A lot of you have been coming in looking for the Nobel Prize for Literature betting odds and leaving comments on last year’s competition – so we’ve decided to show you the odds available for the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Here are the betting odds available: Amos Oz 3/1 Herta Mu�ller 3/1 Joyce Carol Oates 5/1 Philip Roth 5/1 Thomas Pynchon 7/1 Adonis 9/1 Assia Djebar...
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Madame Arcati (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
I am astonished to learn that the Daily Mail bought the serial rights to probably the funniest book of the year, Seasonal Suicide Notes: My Life as It Is Lived by Roger Lewis - and then didn't run the extract! It should have been published two weeks ago: but when editor Paul Dacre finally read it he was horrified, spiked it, and ran something toothless by Janet Street-Porter. Very foolish. For a taste...
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The Urban Woo (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
To Hampstead Heath last night for the launch of Roger Lewis' fantastic new book, Seasonal Suicide Notes , a taste of which is here. I am delighted to be the recipient of Mr L's hilarious emails, as he's one of our regular reviewers, as well as the author of the best Peter Seller's biography, and The Man Who Was Private Widdle, a short biography of Charles Hawtrey; the latter of which was brought for...
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