From Michelle Kerns of Examiner.com, in two parts, a compilation of The 50 Best Author v Author Put-Downs of all Time Particular favourites are no. 24 Mary McCarthy on J. D. Salinger I don’t like Salinger, not at all. That last thing isn’t a novel anyway, whatever it is. I don’t like it. Not at all. It suffers [...]
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Keep Calm and Carry On… Writing
Posted in books, writing, tagged Per Petterson, writing on 15/09/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Even More Festival Jottings
Posted in books, Debate, Out and about, tagged Alice, Carol Ann Duffy, children's fiction, Claire Armitstead, Clerkenwell Press, EIBF, I Curse the River of Time, Jo Nesbo, Judith Hermann, Julia Donaldson, Kate de Goldi, Katie Grant, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Lucinda Coxon, Michel Faber, Momentum, Per Petterson, Petr Horáčk, Romola Garai, Ruth Eastman, Saci Lloyd, The 10pm Question, The Crimson Petal and the White, thetwosteves on 26/08/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Even More Festival Jottings – Wednesday 24th August 2011 Wednesday Morning In the ever-changing face of the book festival, on weekdays, crocodile-lines of schoolchildren find their way into every crevice around Charlotte Square Gardens. The National Literacy Trust said recently that, from a poll of 18, 141 children, 1 in 6 ”don’t read a single [...]


