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The iconoclastic heritage of JD Salinger
Post from Lasting Tribute
Friday, January 29, 2010, 10:56 am
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On Lasting Tribute I often have to write about the deaths of my literary heroes, and today I have the sad duty to report on the passing of JD Salinger.Best known sole novel The Catcher in the Rye but also a fantastic short story writer, Salinger is one…
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Late authors up for Costa book awards
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 5:33 pm
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The Costa Book Awards could announce its first posthumous winner when it’s £5000 prizes are awarded in January.Included on the shortlists for the Costa awards (formerly known as the Whitbread Prize) are two writers who died before seeing their final…
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Is Sarkozy ‘point-scoring’ with Camus honour?
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 3:56 pm
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French president Nicolas Sarkozy is being accused of trying to cash in on the liberal reputation of Albert Camus with his plans to honour the influential writer.If Sarkozy gets his wish, Camus’ remains would be relocated to Paris’ Panthéon where t…
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TS Eliot in the news
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Monday, November 9, 2009, 3:35 pm
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Having read one of his plays (The Family Reunion) at the weekend, I’m pleased to see that TS Eliot is still very much in the news.Firstly a new volume of his letters has helped to “restore the personal reputation of the troubled writer” who had l…
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Larkin about in Hull
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Thursday, November 5, 2009, 2:55 pm
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A festival to celebrate the life and work of poet Philip Larkin has been announced, culminating in the unveiling of a statue in his honour, the Hull Daily Mail reports.A five-month programme of events is planned for next year, ending with the erection …
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Roald Dahl still a hit with kids
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 4:03 pm
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The characters created by Roald Dahl are still holding their own against more modern creations like Harry Potter and Tracy Beaker.The list of the best loved children’s characters was compiled by the books charity Booktrust who asked 1,318 children ag…
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A blight on Blyton’s legacy
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Friday, October 16, 2009, 9:58 am
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The Guardian reports today that Enid Blyton’s fantasy stories are enjoying a resurgence in popularity owing to her keeping in touch with her fans.In other words, her former publishers are profiting by using her name on new books to meet the demands f…
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Harry Potter book boy’s sudden death
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Monday, October 12, 2009, 9:06 am
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Oxford undergraduate and newspaper contributor Toby Rundle, who has died suddenly aged just 21, was perhaps best known for his own Harry Potter story.Two years ago he made headlines when he sold a first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Sto…
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New stamps celebrate great Britons
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Thursday, October 8, 2009, 1:50 pm
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New first-class stamps celebrating great Britons from the past have been launched by the Royal Mail.Former Manchester United manager Sir Matt Busby, tennis ace Fred Perry, speed legend Donald Campbell, and many more adorn the latest stamps.The ten outs…
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Greene Festival opens on Thursday
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 3:56 pm
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Author Graham Greene will be remembered in his home town this week when Berkhamsted plays host to the 12th annual Graham Greene International Festival.From Thursday until Sunday events to celebrate the writer’s life and work will be held at The Rex Ci…
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Cliffhanger
Post from Alex Wire
Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 12:06 pm
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I’ve discovered a new method of relaxing at night to combat my insomnia – I turn off all the lights, climb into bed and listen to murder mysteries (my latest obsession) on the radio.The only problem is, last night I fell asleep midway through The M…
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What’s in a subtitle?
Post from Alex Wire
Thursday, September 24, 2009, 12:56 pm
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This morning I saw a bloke on the bus reading the new biography of William Golding which has the baffling subtitle ‘The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies’.As Robert McCrum writes in The Guardian, “Why a potential reader who had never heard of Goldi…
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A whole lot of Agatha
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 10:13 pm
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BBC Radio have just started an Agatha Christie season and a whole host of programmes about the Queen of Crime are available to UK listeners on the iPlayer.They include dramatizations of works starring super sleuths from Miss Marple to the Mysterious Mr…
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Mr Cobain and Mrs Gaskell – their work lives on
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Monday, September 14, 2009, 9:02 pm
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Two great figures from very different periods are to be remembered.The Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, known commonly simply as Mrs Gaskell, who wrote enduring tales of morality in the 19th century, is to be given a place in Poet’s Corner in Wes…
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Taking the baton from literary giants
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Thursday, September 10, 2009, 1:22 pm
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In the Guardian today, Alison Flood looks at authors taking on the brave task of continuing a series left unfinished by the death of the original writer.After the success of James Bond novels written after Ian Fleming’s death in 1964, several other f…
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And they all lived happily ever after?
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Thursday, August 27, 2009, 1:41 pm
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Peter Pan and Wendy settle down to domestic bliss. The Ugly Duckling joins a support group. The Lord of the Flies boys all get along splendidly.These are among the happy endings proposed by Stephen Moss in the Guardian as he examines the unjust, tragic…
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Arthur Ransome: a Bolshevik and a duffer?
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 2:40 pm
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The secret life of the English children’s author Arthur Ransome is the subject of a surprising new biography.Roland Chambers alleges that during his years in Russia during 1910s, the Swallows and Amazons writer (then a journalist) was a double agent …
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