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Archive for April 2009
Monroe Magazine: You suck!
Post from Giancarlo La Giorgia
Thursday, April 30, 2009, 1:21 pm
Read more: Writing
I’ve seen some pretty awful/scammy media job ads like this one recently put out by Monroe Magazine.Anyone who has ever trolled Craigslist knows the type: “Submit three story ideas and we might consider working with [but not paying] you.” The thing is, …
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Northern Light Awards, recap
Post from Giancarlo La Giorgia
Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 2:26 pm
Read more: Writing
I miss New York! The sights. The sounds. The smells (OK, maybe not the smells…)Just a week ago, I was fortunate enough to find myself worming around the Big Apple (how else would you describe walking 50 blocks in pouring rain).The reason I was in tow…
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Actor Peter Dennis , ‘Devoted friend’ of Winnie-the-Pooh, dies
Post from Lasting Tribute
Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 11:44 am
Read more: Writing
Peter Dennis, who has died aged 75, was a British actor best known for his international one-man show based on the works of AA Milne.
He performed Bother! The Brain of Pooh across the globe and at venues as prestigious as the Hollywood Bowl and Westminster Palace.
His acting career also included a raft of supporting television [...]
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Back of the class, Potter
Post from Lasting Tribute
Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 10:57 am
Read more: Writing
Classic children’s books are still the best, according to children’s laureates, past and present.
Books like Enid Blyton’s Famous Five adventures and Richmal Crompton’s Just William have beaten Harry Potter onto a list of 35 of the best children’s books.
Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson and Michael Rosen picked seven titles each for Waterstone’s [...]
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Poets beware! (people called William too…)
Post from Lasting Tribute
Thursday, April 23, 2009, 5:13 pm
Read more: Writing
Everyone knows today is the anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death in 1616 (as well as his birth), but did you know it is also the anniversary of the passing of several other notable literary figures?
Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes (also 1616), poets Henry Vaughan (1695), William Wordsworth (1850), Rupert Brooke (1915) and American songwriter Harold [...]
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George Orwell library to be restored
Post from Lasting Tribute
Thursday, April 23, 2009, 9:28 am
Read more: Writing
The library where George Orwell researched his book The Road To Wigan Pier is to undergo a £1.6 million facelift to turn it into a heritage centre.
The work at the Grade II listed building, which is now the History Shop in Wigan town centre, will be carried out over the next year.
Peter Gascoigne, executive [...]
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Maurice Druon, Writer
Post from Lasting Tribute
Monday, April 20, 2009, 11:39 am
Read more: Writing
Writer of resistance anthem and defender of the French tongue.
Read full tribute and leave your memories at Lasting Tribute.
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JG Ballard, author of disturbing fiction, has died
Post from Lasting Tribute
Monday, April 20, 2009, 10:07 am
Read more: Writing
The acclaimed and influential British author JG Ballard died yesterday (19 April).
Ballard was best known for his novels Crash (1973) and Empire of the Sun (1984), which were made into films by David Cronenberg and Steven Spielberg respectively.
His dark and often disturbing books won him a cult following, though his wider influence was so great [...]
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JG Ballard, Author
Post from Lasting Tribute
Monday, April 20, 2009, 8:23 am
Read more: Writing
Writer of unsettling and bleak books of huge cultural importance.
Read full tribute and leave your memories at Lasting Tribute.
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Royce Ryton, Playwright
Post from Lasting Tribute
Friday, April 17, 2009, 9:49 am
Read more: Writing
Writer whose historical plays put modern royals on the stage for the first time.
Read full tribute and leave your memories at Lasting Tribute.
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Mark Speight remembered one year on
Post from Lasting Tribute
Monday, April 13, 2009, 3:18 pm
Read more: Art
Fans young and old of the children’s art presenter Mark Speight have been remembering him fondly on the first anniversary of the news of his death.Mr Speight’s body was found in a building next to Paddington railway station one year ago today, six …
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Mark Speight remembered one year on
Post from Lasting Tribute
Monday, April 13, 2009, 3:18 pm
Read more: Art
Fans young and old of the children’s art presenter Mark Speight have been remembering him fondly on the first anniversary of the news of his death.
Mr Speight’s body was found in a building next to Paddington railway station one year ago today, six days after he went missing.
He was in mourning for his fiancée Natasha [...]
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To finish or not to finish?
Post from Lasting Tribute
Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 11:56 am
Read more: Writing
Stephen Moss in the Guardian’s books section today says that material left by writers after they die should be published in an unfinished state.
Yesterday I blogged about how two Michael Crichton novels were to be published posthumously, including one that will be finished by another author.
“Don’t do it!” says Moss. “Leave his work be: publish [...]
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Picasso sketch could fetch £30,000
Post from Lasting Tribute
Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 11:52 am
Read more: Art
An unsigned Picasso sketch from a private collection is expected to make in excess of £30,000 at auction after Easter.It is a pen and ink drawing by the artist, known as the “father of Cubism”, who died on this day in 1973.It is believed he produced s…
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Picasso sketch could fetch £30,000
Post from Lasting Tribute
Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 11:52 am
Read more: Art
An unsigned Picasso sketch from a private collection is expected to make in excess of £30,000 at auction after Easter.
It is a pen and ink drawing by the artist, known as the “father of Cubism”, who died on this day in 1973.
It is believed he produced some 13,500 paintings, 100,000 prints, 34,000 book illustrations and [...]
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