W B Gooderham

LATEST ARTICLES ( 124 )

• Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf

  

  Molly. ashtrays coffee and wee small morning hours. What would life be like without them? S. Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

  

  With the compliments of the Pornographic League on the celebration of their two hundredth consecutive anniversary. Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

  

  April 1978 Your hand doesn’t go sloppy on me. Read the book + you’ll know what I mean. To the only woman for me, All my love, Chris. xxxxxxxx P.S. Well done in... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Time and the Hunter by Italo Calvino

  

  to livid from Lullington don’t be so bloody bashful xjx Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Stasiland – Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder

  

  While our past mercilessly defines who we are, Our future innocently portrays who we can be. 5th November 2003 – 2004: One year of knowing you xx Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Republic by Plato

  

  Dear Barbara [?] I do hope you enjoy this book! All the best [ace the test?] Your friend Valados [?] Dear Rufus – I did not – I hope you do! Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Gone to Earth by Mary Webb

  

  Jake – I’d have gladly paid £7.99 for this … for your birthday I haven’t read it yet :- perhaps you could loan lend  give it to me when you’ve finished with it. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Across the Great Divide – The Band and America by Barney Hoskyns

  

  To Pops, And the best abusive father a boy could wish for. Have a wicked one. You Rock! Andy Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Herzog by Saul Bellow

  

  Happy Birthday Now you can give me my copy back Lots of love Nick Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

  

  To Barry [Bray?] The sparrow sings “dawn chorus” for someone else to hear. The “thinker” sits alone, Growing old. Time has just begun Ann. Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

  

  [Front Inscription] She said: “Baise-moi et baise m’encore Jusqu’à ce que le feu de ton corps ne puisse Me demander d’arrêter…” [Translation: “fuck me and fuck... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde Collected by Cecil Hewetson

  

  M, handsome, Consider which of these most applies to you. You’ll recognise the last of all as being mine. Get well soon: the gods of illness are cruelly... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sex and the Brain by Jo Durden-Smith and Diane De Simone

  

  What a distinguished career in the social sciences! Ha ha ha this book is absolute bollocks! [For Jack, Joan and Adele, a father and two mothers; and for Lewis... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Speed Reading by Tony Buzan

  

  Dear Cecely I’m sorry, I was wrong. I’m keen that you understand I didn’t lie. I wanted to get back together. But recently I’ve thought and it’s clear I was... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Personal Anthology by Jorge Luis Borges

  

  Dear George, We’ll study this borge [?] then! Thank you for the thoughtful present, and for holding my hand at night xxx Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

  

  Christopher’s implacable hatred of religion – his mother was murdered by a ‘man of god’ Maclehose Weekend world He gave me PG Wodehouse I gave him Dylan Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

  

  AGENT SMART: YOUR NEXT ASSIGNMENT IS TO READ THE FOLLOWING MATERIAL. HOWEVER, DO NOT FOLLOW THE USUAL PROCEDURE OF BURNING THE MATERIAL! Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul

  

  February 1988 To John – with our love and sincere congratulations on a job well done. – Auntie Betty Uncle Ivor Too formal by half so what about – Congrats... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Innocence by Penelope Fitzgerald

  

  “I’ve come to think that it’s not impossible that at an early point in my life I took a wrong direction…” !! Love, Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Philosophical Aesthetics – An Introduction Edited by Oswald Hanfling

  

  – So what’s in it for you? – Is that all you can think about? – Yes. I am human. And I’m not going to lie. – alright, I’ll accept that. – But what about Morals... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE