Paul Theroux

Dead end

Indian Express (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

After his trail-blazing The Great Railway Bazar, about his travels in the sub-continent and beyond, Paul Theroux's India novels have been disappointing to say the least.

Paul Theroux Gives Advice to Aspiring Writers

World Hum (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

"Leave home, travel alone, and stay on the ground"

Video: Paul Theroux Gives Advice to Aspiring Writers

World Hum (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

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Sunday word count & excuses, excuses…

tea stains (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009

Since I started my mini race with Sheepish I’d been writing pretty consistently. This was good because it meant I was carrying all the threads of the plot in my head and was shuffling between them as and when it was needed. Then I had the emotional traumas of the UK and even when I had a tiny opportunity to write, I couldn’t. The day that I left Bangkok, you may remember that Paul Theroux...

Book Review: A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta by Paul Theroux

Desicritics (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009

Paul Theroux is known primarily as a travel writer, though he has published many works of fiction. His latest book, 'A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta', is set in, well, Calcutta (Theroux does not even bother to explain why he prefers Calcutta to Kolkata) and though not a travelogue, benefits immensely from Theroux's travel writing traits. Did Theroux make a trip to Kolkata just to get background material...

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A Dead Hand review

the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009

The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Paul Theroux's new novel of A Crime in Calcutta , A Dead Hand -- just about out in the UK (and Canada...), but only being published in February in the US for some reason.

Interview: Paul Theroux by Eleanor Wachtel

Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009

(This week I'm covering the International Festival of Authors in Toronto. This event is "Interview: Paul Theroux by Eleanor Wachtel.") Paul Theroux has long been one of those authors I feel like I should get around to but never quite have: I own a couple of his better-known books and have long harbored unfulfilled intentions to read them. After this event, I think I will. Theroux and his...

IFOA XXX: October 25

Torontoist (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009

Every morning during the International Festival of Authors we'll be previewing the day's events and making our picks for the ones that seem most promising. The Man Who Would Be Prime Minister. Illustration by Sasha Plotnikova/Torontoist. Today's Events 11 a.m. — Humber Writers' Circle (Lakeside Terrace) 12 p.m. — Interview: Paul Theroux by Eleanor Wachtel (Fleck Dance Theatre) 12 p.m....

Medford Not Man Enough for Michael Bloomberg: New Bio Paints Town Beige

Bostonist (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009

A new biography of Michael Bloomberg apparently paints Medford as an anti-Semitic small town too dull to handle the fiery spirit of the future mayor of New York (who was born in Brighton). The book also describes how Bloomberg's family had to enlist an Irish middleman to buy a home in Medford when the seller wouldn't deal with Jewish people. Bloomberg buddy Paul Theroux piles on the hate, calling...

Agony and ecstasy

Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009

Twenty years ago, when William Dalrymple published his first book, In Xanadu, travel writers tended to follow the example of Paul Theroux, whose huge success then dominated the genre, and to cast themselves as the heroes of their narratives. ‘With Nine Lives,’ explains Dalrymple in the introduction to his seventh book, ‘I have tried to invert this, and keep the narrator firmly in...

Another vacation. Wah, wah, wah

Writers Plot (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009

posted by Jeanne Munn Bracken I suppose you're tired of hearing about it, but I have scrabbled together another week away from work to "finish" the cancer book from hell. It's supposed to be in production by now, but it won't be the first time I have been the cause of a delay. I sure hope, though, it's the last. So here I sit, at the Maine campground, closing out the season among the pines...

Paul Theroux

tea stains (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009

It's jolly difficult to believe that last night the Board at the Neilson Hays Library were welcoming Paul Theroux and this morning I'm sitting in a little hotel room in overcast London. We had a wonderful night. It was a great coup to get him to come and talk and members and non members alike turned out in their droves to come and listen. He was wonderful, funny, charming, and generous. I'm a bit fuzzy...

Busy

tea stains (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009

I fly tonight and I haven’t packed yet. I had book club today to discuss The Little Stranger. It was an excellent meeting. I wasn’t going to stay for lunch because I hadn’t packed yet, but I changed my mind, saying ‘well, I’ve got to eat…’ I’ve come home to pack now. And here I am blogging. I have to go out in one hour because Paul Theroux is coming...

Of gifted children and gated communities: Paul Theroux's O-Zone …

Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009

Of gifted children and gated communities: Paul Theroux's O-Zone and Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower.: An article from: Utopian Studies. in: Science Fiction . If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. ...

The Times’ 20 Best Travel Books of the Past Century

World Hum (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009

The venerable London daily has an excellent round-up , with plenty of attention to some lesser-known (these days) names from several decades past. Wilfred Thesiger, Freya Stark, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Paul Theroux and Jonathan Raban hold down the top five slots. As a bonus, each entry includes links to the original Times reviews, interviews, excerpts and other archived material.