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• Two Brief Reviews

  

  I had the week from Hell last week. No, don’t ask, I’m not in a place where I can talk about any of it yet, although I can say it included in its minor reaches ... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beautiful Ruins

  

  April 1962, Porto Vergogna, a tiny village straggling up the cliff in the least famous of the Cinque Terre resorts. In the sun-drenched waters, Pasquale Tursi i... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Awesome Indies

  

  For a while now, I’ve been speculating that what we need is a kind of sorting house for the wealth of self-published material that’s now available. There I... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Me, Elsewhere

  

  I seem suddenly to have a little rush of essays out on the internet.In the latest edition of Cerise Press, two essays on authors and their sordid love... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Reading Slumps: What’s That All About?

  Don’t you just adore the first book that pulls you out of a reading slump? After an interminable period when nothing’s been quite right, I am falling over mysel... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Woman Upstairs

  

  Nora Eldridge is an angry woman, a 42-year-old elementary school teacher and would-be artist looking back on the events of five years ago that have brought her... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Holiday Books and Films

  

  Wednesday, Thursday, and the Slow Death of the Present TenseI have always felt that the most powerful guiding force of my life is irony. Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Holiday Diary II

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  Posted on 24 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My Holiday Diary

  FridayMr Litlove and I make surprisingly good time up the motorway to Yorkshire. In fact we cover 160 of the 170 miles in a couple of hours. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Holiday!

  You know what? I’m going to throw in the towel rather than bust a gut trying to get my outstanding reviews written.  We’re off on holiday in a few days, Mr... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Flora

  

  In an effort to get through my reviews, a series of short ones starting with Gail Godwin’s latest novel, Flora. Writing from her present position as an elderly... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Thousand Pardons

  

  If you asked me what cocktail of ingredients made up the novels of Jonathan Dee, I would say they were four parts Richard Yates, two parts postmodern hyperreal... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Whiff of Testosterone

  

  Let’s welcome the boys back in, shall we, after their month of enforced exclusion from the reading room! And what better place to start than with the new trilog... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2013 BOOKS

• Women’s Writing Month Wrap-Up

  As a final post after a month of women’s writing, Dark Puss and I considered the experience we’d had and the points that had come out of the discussion on the... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Glaciers

  

  All this month I’ve been looking at books written by women with a particular eye to their gender dynamics. A lot has been said about the progress the Western... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Life’s Legacy

  

  The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D by Nichole Bernier takes place in the summer that followed 9/11, a time of great social fragility when perspectives on risk... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Words To Say It

  

  Ghosting by Jennie Erdal is my third creative non-fiction book, and an elegant, flawless meditation on the deep and surprising levels of our relationship to... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Our Third and Final Book

  

  This was the book that seemed to divide us the most. What Alice Forgot is essentially a genre novel, though quite what precise term would be used to describe it... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2013 BOOKS

• Our First Book

  

  The first book that Dark Puss and I tackled was Marge Piercy’s intense saga from the early 1970s, Small Changes, which we read simultaneously and exchanged... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Reading with Dark Puss

  Several months ago now, Dark Puss and I were having a discussion online about the influence of gender in reading. Dark Puss didn’t believe that there were any... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE