Congrats, though I fear your fifteen minutes are up as you got predictably trounced by a dark-skinned foreigner yesterday. You can perhaps look forward to another bout of rational defying great expectations in about twelve months time.
A podcast – or, since it was in the Bodleian Library, a 'bodcast' – of the Oxford Literary Festival discussion of "Bruce Chatwin Remembered" in which I and others took part can be listened to by clicking on this link and choosing the Chatwin event.
Two short pieces by me have just appeared: a short reflection on "Growing up in History" in the annual Liverpool History Society Journal 2009. This also includes a short piece by my late father which turned up in his papers. I have also contributed "My Harold Pinter Story" (which first appeared in a version in this blog) in the latest Areté (No 28, Spring/Summer 2009) to a collection of pieces about the late playwright.
Paperback of A Corkscrew is Most Useful to be published 4th June
The paperback edition of my book about the Victorian travellers and explorers, A Corkscrew is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire is to be published by Abacus on 4th June.
Chatwin and Kafka
I took part in a panel at the Oxford Literary Festival on 30 March to discuss the reputation of Bruce Chatwin on the 20th anniversary of his death. Earlier in March I gave a lecture on "Kafka's Women" at the University Women's Club in Mayfair.
What Are You Working On?
I have just completed a review-essay of some new British poetry for the next issue of Poetry Salzburg Review and I am contributing an essay on Malcolm Lowry's October Ferry to Gabriola for a collection of centenary essays on Lowry edited by Bryan Biggs to be published by Liverpool University Press later this year.
I am also researching and writing a book about the British poets of the First World War to be published next year by Little, Brown (UK).
So Spirited A Town: Visions and Versions of Liverpool has had several excellent reviews. See The Independent, 4 February 2008, The Liverpool Daily Post, 2 February 2008 and The Sunday Times, 17 February 2008. Stephen Bayley, however, in the New Statesmandoesn't like the book's cover, 3 April 2008. It is also reviewed in the latest Planet magazine by Peter Fince
Latest review by me is inThe Jewish Chronicle (26 September) where I review James Hawes's Excavating Kafka In The Independent I reviewed Ilya Troyanov's novel The Collector of Worlds on 18 July. In The Literary Review I wrote about a new Selected Letters of Aldous Huxley(April, 2008) ; The Independent, 21 March 2008 had a review on John Kerrigan's Archipelagic English. I reviewed Anne Stevenson's new book of poems, Stone Milk in Planet, February/March 2008 No 187
Latest article is in the current issue of Poetry Salzburg Review where I interview the poet Peter Dale. There are also several of my own poems in the same issue. In Slightly Foxed (N0 18) I wrote about Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals.
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Nicholas Murray
Wales and London, United Kingdom
I am the author of several literary biographies, two novels, two collections of poems, and there is more in the pipeline!
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Congrats, though I fear your fifteen minutes are up as you got predictably trounced by a dark-skinned foreigner yesterday. You can perhaps look forward to another bout of rational defying great expectations in about twelve months time.
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