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First lot of judges' marks in for Guardian first book award. Why do I always find it so terrifying?
6:42 AM Oct 22nd
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What to drink with your philosophers: Aristotle=plain water; Cicero=claret;Aquinas=scotch; Kant=sherry. Scruton on form
6:39 AM Oct 22nd
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Went to Sandwich at w/e, thinking about Wolf Hall, and quite by chance stumbled on lots of Cromwells in local church. Felt like old friends.
9:36 AM Oct 19th
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Postal frustrations nothing new: "Every post is as tedious as a tired horse", said one Thomas Edwards's in 1748.
9:26 AM Oct 19th
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Just read Fay Weldon's Chalcot Crescent. It's a genetically modified sprog of Atwood and Coetzee. Eco-ego-biography? Such a sly writer.
9:34 AM Oct 1st
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"The Sumerians of Babylon left us the earliest known depictions of vampires, on a cylinder seal" Christmas novelty hit?
9:26 AM Oct 1st
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To Mother Courage press night at National. Gore Vidal voiced surtitles and took a bow: the sage of the age in a wheelchair. Sic transit!
4:49 AM Sep 26th
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Which books would you recommend on climate change and what to do about it? Listen to our podcast start-up chat.
4:36 AM Sep 26th
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Slightly partisan ranking of movie scores. But lists are always fun. Even SF ones.
3:58 AM Sep 23rd
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Just been addressing "reading for pleasure" seminar for teachers. How many had read Stephenie Meyer's Twilight? Almost all. V impressive.
2:03 AM Sep 23rd
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I guess this would rule out Walter Benjamin's Arcades project
1:58 AM Sep 23rd
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Nice little series coming from OUP on biographies of diseases. But surely the "Biography of...." genre must be closer to grave than cradle.
9:00 AM Sep 22nd
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Been reading Sarah Gabriel's breast cancer memoir Eating Pomegranates. I've rarely experienced such terror, on or off the printed page.
8:50 AM Sep 22nd
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"We may suffer ourselves to be too much led away by great names and to be too much subdued by their overbearing authority" JMW Turner
6:57 AM Sep 21st
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Don Paterson discusses his passion for film noir imagery, the science of language – and why you can never trust a poet.
6:31 AM Sep 19th
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Excellent piece by David Edgar on criminalisation of the creative imagination
2:58 AM Sep 19th
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First Booker judges pick up Cheeta, now Oprah has "discovered" Uwem Akpan. Both so last year for Guardian first book prize longlisters...
9:03 AM Sep 18th
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"I'm a member of 13 gentlemen's clubs and dining societies," Andrew Roberts, Modern Delights(faber). No belt-tightening for historians, then
8:28 AM Sep 18th
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Anyone with a beef about academies should read this letter. Surreal!
7:04 AM Sep 18th
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Partners in crime?
7:00 AM Sep 18th
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- Name Claire Armitstead
- Location London
- Web http://www.guardi...
- Bio Claire Armitstead is the Guardian's literary editor
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