The Bibliophilic Blogger
"A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short" - Schopenhauer.
Monday, 24 March 2014
Roy Jenkins and I
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It is more than 12 years since I received this letter out of the blue from Roy Jenkins who is now being much talked of as a result of a ne...
Writing About the Great War
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Ford Madox Ford Three months into the centenary year of the outbreak of the First World War is there any kind of consensus about how thi...
Wednesday, 19 March 2014
Talking about the Poetry Pamphlet
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A recent pamphlet from Rack Press Thank you to Planet magazine for interviewing me for a podcast on the subject of poetry pamphlets in ...
Friday, 14 March 2014
Tony Benn Remembered
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Tony Benn At Demonstration outside the Greek Embassy, January 2013 I last saw Tony Benn at a demonstration outside the Greek Embassy in ...
Friday, 7 March 2014
Creative Writing Courses: a Health Warning
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I see that Hanif Kureishi has been at it again this time rubbishing creative writing courses and giving the media the pleasure of pointing...
Monday, 17 February 2014
Biography and the Need to Know
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Having just read John Cornwell's biography of John Henry Newman, the Victorian theologian and prose stylist (much admired by James Joy...
Saturday, 18 January 2014
Remembering Bruce Chatwin
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Today is the 25th anniversary of the death of Bruce Chatwin and his former school, Marlborough College, was the venue for a two-day colloq...
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