alitg5a4 | yesterday
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) –Oscar organizers joined the MTV generation on Wednesday, naming Hamish Hamilton as director of March's movie awards ceremony, and they also unveiled their shortlist of films vying for a best documentary nomination. British-born Hamilton, 43, is a first-time Oscar director, but he is a veteran of numerous live-event programs including this year's MTV
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
JULIAN BARNES The main literary event of 2009 was the death of John Updike. Generous to the last, he left us two posthumous books: in prose, My Father’s Tears, and in verse, Endpoint (both Hamish Hamilton), an account of his...
pepaf79oq | 11/24/2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) –Oscar organizers joined the MTV generation on Wednesday, naming Hamish Hamilton as director of March's movie awards ceremony, and they also unveiled their shortlist of films vying for a best documentary nomination. British-born Hamilton, 43, is a first-time Oscar director, but he is a veteran of numerous live-event programs including this year's MTV
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... irregularity? A new book by the American novelist-essayist David Shields (to be published here by Hamish Hamilton early next year) makes the case for irregularity. In Reality Hunger: A Manifesto Shields argues passionately for the superiority of the messy real – of what we might call "truthiness" – over the careful creations of novelists, and other artists, who work with artificial...
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The Observer asks a bunch of prominent intellectual types for their books of the year. No word yet on what the nurses, plumbers, data analysts, and falafel vendors think. Colum McCann – novelist Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (McSweeney’s Books; published here in February by Hamish Hamilton) is an examination of America in the time of Katrina, an [...]
Baroque in Hackney (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
So… Zadie Smith is publishing – that is, she has written, so Hamish Hamilton is publishing – a book of essays, and thus has essayed to write an essay about it, which is in yesterday’s Guardian. Most of her essay is about the essays of one David Shields, whose book of essays on the essay [...]
AN AESTHETE'S LAMENT (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... (Belford, Clarke & Company, published around 1890) and Nancy Mitford's Don't Tell Alfred (Hamish Hamilton, 1960). The former volume's decorative cloth cover would make a wonderful scheme for a library or a grand drawing room—imagine a space kitted out with sumptuous sofa covered in gauffrage velvet in that exact shade of moss green, low tables of shimmering cinnabar-red...
