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Corporate Engagement (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... If you don’t already know, kimbofo is also the blogging world’s leading expert — and advocate — of John McGahern, the outstanding Irish novelist who died just three years ago. I’d always been reluctant to try McGahern (he seemed just too Irish by description); it was kimbofo on her blog and in comments at John Self’s The Asylum who convinced me he deserved attention. I started...
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Columbus Tech Life (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
About this talk Why do people succeed? Is it because they're smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither. Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success. About Richard St. John A self-described average guy who found success doing what he loved, Richard St. John spent more than a decade researching the...
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Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... However, we can only guess, as yet, what the screenwriters have made of it. Money is the story of John Self, a director of TV commercials who is "addicted to the 20th century" – booze, junk food, pornography, sex and wealth. When he's summoned to Hollywood to direct a film called "Big Money", featuring the past-it sex maniac Lorne Guyland (based on Kirk Douglas)...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... sets worrying if Mr Darcy will be dashing enough, we will agonise about whether the protagonist John Self – an Englishman chasing sex and wealth in 1981 New York – will be sufficiently slobby. We're probably right to worry. The melancholy rule is that versions of contemporary novels tend to achieve the unfortunate double of disappointing those who have read the book while...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Martin Amis's classic novel Money is to be brought to life by the BBC in a new drama starring Jerry Hall. The 1980s exploration of amorality, excess and greed will be televised in a two-part drama following the story of British commercials director John Self, played by Nick Frost, who is thrust into the world of New York movie deals, shark-like agents and impossibly petulant actors....
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Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The 1980s literary exploration of amorality, excess and greed will be televised in a two-part drama following the story of British director of commercials John Self, played by Nick Frost, who is thrust into the world of New York movie deals, shark agents and impossibly petulant actors.
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Empire Of The Kop (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
I have compiled a list of who in my opinion are Liverpool F.C.’s top 10 heroes, the list varies and it includes managers, players, scouts and also a chief executive. It is very difficult choosing the top 10 especially when I had to leave the likes of Roger Hunt, Robbie Fowler, Ian St. John, [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... it raised. I was mostly saying 'Please don't post anything'." A user with the postername John Self posted an invitation Dasgupta had sent via Facebook for friends to come and vote on the Not the Booker thread, and at that point "anything that was said about my book was a conspiracy," Dasgupta continues, "and people were saying that I was behind it all." It...
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... passion it raised. I was mostly saying 'Please don't post anything'." A user with the postername John Self posted an invitation Dasgupta had sent via Facebook for friends to come and vote on the Not the Booker thread, and at that point "anything that was said about my book was a conspiracy," Dasgupta continues, "and people were saying that I was behind it all." It reached a point...
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The Reader Online (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... passion it raised. I was mostly saying ‘Please don’t post anything’.” A user with the postername John Self posted an invitation Dasgupta had sent via Facebook for friends to come and vote on the Not the Booker thread, and at that point “anything that was said about my book was a conspiracy,” Dasgupta continues, “and people were saying that I was behind it all.” It reached a point...
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3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
... May 8 1994, quoted at the beginning of Generation A , Douglas Coupland, William Heinemann 2009 John Self’s description of himself as ‘addicted to the twentieth century’ could easily have been applied to Douglas Coupland. Even starting out as a novelist in the mid nineties, his books bristled with logos and brandnames; and he’s in his element at a time when consumer technology is accelerating...
