Inspiring Older Readers
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The Ampersand posted on 11 Apr 2016
Jack Common has virtually disappeared from public view - a state of affairs that would have dismayed much of the literary establishment
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Out of the Pit posted on 08 Apr 2016
I’m pretty sure that this 1951 novel by John Barclay Pick is currently out of print
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Alma Cogan posted on 05 Apr 2016
Gordon Burn died at the age of 61 in 2009, a victim of bowel cancer. His reputation within parts of the literary and artistic community...
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Kafka Was the Rage posted on 03 Apr 2016
I think I discovered Anatole Broyard’s Kafka Was the Rage as a consequence of reading Philip Roth’s The Human Stain.
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My Salinger Year posted on 03 Apr 2016
I've developed a completely jaundiced and probably largely unfair impression that the world of publishing relies on...
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Rare Books Uncovered : True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places posted on 01 Apr 2016
I suspect that every book collector, whatever it is they collect, dreams of the perfect find
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The Machine Stops posted on 31 Mar 2016
It would be tempting to read this short story ( it's only around 12,000 words long) as in some way prophetic
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Coprophilia or A Peck of Dirt posted on 26 Mar 2016
Spend an evening watching commercial television and the advertisements will most certainly convince you that we are in a war
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The Year of the Runaways posted on 25 Mar 2016
Towards the end of this beautifully written but sometimes harrowing story, Narinder who is the main female character reflects, 'Who would be a man'?
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The Library At Night posted on 24 Mar 2016
Every discipline needs it’s public intellectual – someone to articulate their cause and to make the difficult simple