Monthly Archives: January 2009
Jonathan Franzen dusts under the social and political valence
Funnily enough, this post was mostly originally written the day before John Updike died. It was what I was typing when my famous Laptop Keyboard Disaster happened last week. It’s an unfortunate serendipity, though: while my keyboard did eventually recover … Continue reading
Candlemass poetry reading
By the way… tonight’s poetry reading is at what I think is London’s oldest church: ALL HALLOWS BY THE TOWER BYWARD STREET London EC3 Tickets: £7 (includes drinks and nibbles) at 7pm in aid of Ashanti Development Readers Shereen Abdallah, … Continue reading
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top secret Baroque
And readers, Ms B has got the job! Starting Monday I will be based, daytimes, in a secret location in the centre of town, to which I will be flown every morning in a private helicopter, landing on my own … Continue reading
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Love is Blue: a time capsule
While we’re on the subject of the sixties. There is nothing you can say to me about this piece of music: nothing. When I hear it I am still sitting in the back of Robin Lasso’s mother’s car, and we … Continue reading
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updates: poetry and life in translation
Last week I went to the launch, at the Hungarian Cultural Centre, of Agnes Lehoczky’s Budapest to Babel, published by the enterprising Eggbox Publishing. I’ve already been reading it, as noted previously on this blog, and was very happy to … Continue reading
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