Blogs about: Clive James

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The Slow Painful Death of the Art of Criticism & How It Hurts Doctor Who4 comments

Horselover Fat wrote 3 days ago: As mentioned last time this week’s final episode of this series of Doctor Who sparked a few th … more →

Tags: Biography, Politics 2, Comics, SF, Rant, Culture, criticism, Doctor Who, DC Comics

A Cry For Help: Clive James3 comments

layanglicana wrote 3 days ago: Without exactly telling them that I felt like a man swimming towards a raft in a sea of circling fin … more →

Tags: Depression, Sharks, rafts, cry for help, manifesto

Plate Techtonics

jrbenjamin wrote 2 weeks ago: In the Great Rift, the wildebeest wheel and run, Spooked by a pride of lions which would kill, In an … more →

Tags: Poetry, Plate Tectonics

Leo Igwe: a voice of reason in a modern day Salem

adambarnett2013 wrote 3 weeks ago: Nigerian humanist Leo Igwe talks witchcraft and atheism at the Hackney Attic Photo: Leo Igwe (centre … more →

Tags: Adam Barnett, Leo Igwe, Nigeria, Boko Haram, Witches, Witchcraft, Superstition, Atheism, Reason

Clive James pushes his Divine Comedy on the virtual book tour circuit.9 comments

Theophrastus wrote 1 month ago: Clive James, the seemingly ubiquitous television talk show host, Formula One commentator, Australian … more →

Tags: translation, Literature, Italian, Dante, divine comedy, Vernon Watkins, Philip Larkin

Clive James & Dante's "The Divine Comedy"

Kevin Cryan wrote 1 month ago: Book Description amazon.com Publication Date: April 15, 2013 | ISBN-10: 0871404486 | ISBN-13: 978-08 … more →

The Book Of My Enemy: Clive James

layanglicana wrote 2 months ago: The book of my enemy has been remaindered And I rejoice… What avail him now his awards and pri … more →

Tags: Poetry, Enemies, schadenfreude, remaindered books

We Are Not Provided with Wisdom

jrbenjamin wrote 2 months ago: “There is no man…however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived i … more →

Tags: Literature, Age, Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Within a Budding Grove, Cultural Amnesia, Wisdom

A dialogue: Book as lever, book as sextant, book as sandcastle

Jonathan Gibbs wrote 2 months ago: All I want is book upon which I can stand… can take a stand… can stand firm. Doesn … more →

Tags: Writing #2, Alex Ross, Archimedes

The 25 Greatest Essay Collections of All Time

emilystemple wrote 2 months ago: Today marks the release of Aleksandar Hemon’s excellent book of personal essays, The Book of M … more →

Tags: Books, zzz-mailer-ready-feature, aleksandar hemon, Annie Dillard, Christopher Hitchens, Cynthia Ozick, David Foster Wallace, david sedaris, Edward Hoagland

Holding Court a poem by Clive James.

Kevin Cryan wrote 2 months ago: ‘Holding Court‘  TLS 28th February 2013 They are the deeply  moving words of a man comin … more →

Winter

John Worne wrote 2 months ago: A bit like being winded by a whack in the solar plexus, this poem takes the wind out of your sails … more →

Tags: Life, death, Achilles, Poetry, odysseus, writing, Poem, Holding Court, Morbid Streak

Live Poet’s Society

phenell wrote 2 months ago: Perhaps wrongly, there is a slight shame about still be moved by poetry on life’s home straight. A s … more →

Tags: Culture, Poetry, Ezra Pound, Leonard Cohen, Andrew Marvell

Argument by Diktat3 comments

Davis Oldham wrote 3 months ago: I’m becoming increasingly frustrated by writers whose style is characterized to a large extent by wh … more →

Tags: Miscellany, Harold Bloom, Erich Auerbach, Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Sartre, Adorno, lukács

Mesmerizing patterns in colorful silk....4 comments

gigoid wrote 3 months ago: Ffolkes, It isn’t my habit to begin the day with blood and death, before I’ve even had m … more →

Tags: Daily Pearls of Virtual Wisdom, Life, Politics, Winnie the Pooh, Poetry, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Philosophy, Zippy the Pinhead

Concentration and Libraries Are Acrimoniously Divorced. By C.p. Singleton (c) 2013

cpsingleton42 wrote 3 months ago: So I sit, as comfortable as an athritic On a cold, damp day. I’m inside Sittingbourne Library … more →

Tags: Poetry, Libraries, librarians, Julian Clary, Terry Pratchett, Dick Francis, Ted Hughes, Gianni Giansanti, Calves

What is 'reading'?: A failed blog post about books

Jonathan Gibbs wrote 4 months ago: About a year ago I began writing a monthly post on this blog responding to the books that I had read … more →

Tags: monthly reading, Walter Benjamin, geoff dyer, Nicholson Baker, Keith Ridgway, roberto bolaño, Javier Marias, Thomas Mann, zadie smith

Will Self isn't even trying any more1 comment

aethelreadtheunread wrote 4 months ago: Those of you with long memories, and the stamina to endure my dreadful blog for such a long period o … more →

Tags: Stuff I've watched, stuff i've read, Political Commentary, jonathan meades, Will Self

Tall Poppies2 comments

mymatejoechip wrote 4 months ago: Wishing to avoid all internet filters and the attention of international authorities and domestic po … more →

Tags: Humor, Comedy, Art, Celebrity, Australia, Tall Poppy syndrome, Opium, drugs, Germaine Greer


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