Michael Caines

@michaelscaines

An editor. Now collecting gossip, tall tales and even good news stories about literary prizes. Please DM me if you have any of the above.

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Joined December 2013
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  1. 12 hours ago

    Best typo excuse ever - from Codrington's Curtius Rufus, Wing C7697B

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  2. 15 hours ago

    Mine is the intimate way. I am best with a few people near me. – Robert Frost, November 21 1915

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  3. Nov 20

    Another thigh-slapper noted by Arnold Bennett, November 20 1904

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  4. Nov 19

    now I know where it's all gone wrong... I need Maya Angelou's "writing ritual".

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  5. Nov 19

    I have been reading Katherine Mansfield's letters this afternoon and wishing I were Katherine Mansfield.. – Anne Sexton, November 19 1959

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  6. Nov 18

    "Sontag's essays are great interpretations..." "Yeah, cheers for that, Carlos. Did you even *look* at the book?"

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  7. Nov 18

    the first Edit: of M.P. is all sold... I am very greedy & want to make the most of it.. – Jane Austen, November 18, 1814

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  8. Nov 17

    I have written a further 6,000 words of the novel, with the usual consequence that the better I work, the worse I sleep.–E.Waugh, 17/11/1939

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  9. Nov 16

    The mathematician Lillian Lieber wrote a whole book about maths like this and is my new favourite poet.

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  10. Nov 16

    He was one of the great literary haters. Lawrence is the other one who comes to mind.

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  11. Nov 16

    There's a book pitch in this, like Craig Brown's One on One. A chain of dislike: Osborne > Nabokov > Freud...

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  12. Nov 16

    I don't know if you can tell, but John Osborne really didn't like Vladimir Nabokov:

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  13. Nov 16

    slightly over 200,000 [words], much less than usual.. – Arnold Bennett takes stock, November 16 1905

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  14. Nov 15

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  15. Nov 15

    Make the American Novel Great Again

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  16. Nov 15

    Pacifists with lead-headed canes, etc. (Pound, contd.)

  17. Nov 15

    there remains the temperament that wants revolution *with violence* ... just pure and platonic love of a row. – Ezra Pound, November 15 1918

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  18. Nov 14

    Elizabeth Smart's version of – most chance encounters? Not just the human/non-human kind..

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  19. Nov 14

    I an in just the same state, thin, busy and well. – Sylvia Townsend Warner, November 14 1942

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