Another Lost Shark (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
As always, my morning trawl through the papers sent me to my book case looking for the real news. The book that reached out to me was The Collected Poems of Zbigniew Herbert. It’s a book that delivers its truths stripped bare of the editorial politicism that is crippling the art of journalism. So if, [...]
Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
“France lay very much in our path, our path to almost everything that could beckon us forth from our base – and there were very few things in the world or places on the globe that didn’t beckon us; according to which she helped us along on our expansive course a good deal more, doubtless, than either she or we always knew.” So wrote Henry James in 1915, less than a year before...
Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
by Patrick Kurp Anecdotal Evidence What are the non-electronic precursors of book blogging? Essays, reviews, feuilletons, maxims, commonplace books, journals, letters, bull sessions, reveries, mental rambles. Some of us were born bloggers and waited for the technology to catch up. Posts are digital editions of words and thoughts that would otherwise evaporate, and the internet permits us to inflict...
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
To describe myself as a fan of J.M. Coetzee’s work on the basis that I liked Disgrace makes me feel a little like the gorilla in the Far Side cartoon, who says to his friend, “You know, I really love bananas. Heck, I know we all do, but for me, I think it goes further than that.” After a disastrous attempt to review Diary of a Bad Year when I was having a bad month, I have now –...
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