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Clive James December 2011
Clives James takes stock of life and literary output by: David Free From: The Australian December 10, 2011 12:00AM LET’S start with the good news. Clive James’s leukemia, whose diagnosis w… more →
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The Slow Painful Death of the Art of Criticism & How It Hurts Doctor Who
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wrote 3 days ago: As mentioned last time this week’s final episode of this series of Doctor Who sparked a few th … more →
A Cry For Help: Clive James
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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 →
Plate Techtonics
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 →
Leo Igwe: a voice of reason in a modern day Salem
wrote 3 weeks ago: Nigerian humanist Leo Igwe talks witchcraft and atheism at the Hackney Attic Photo: Leo Igwe (centre … more →
Clive James pushes his Divine Comedy on the virtual book tour circuit.
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wrote 1 month ago: Clive James, the seemingly ubiquitous television talk show host, Formula One commentator, Australian … more →
Clive James & Dante's "The Divine Comedy"
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
wrote 2 months ago: The book of my enemy has been remaindered And I rejoice… What avail him now his awards and pri … more →
We Are Not Provided with Wisdom
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 →
A dialogue: Book as lever, book as sextant, book as sandcastle
wrote 2 months ago: All I want is book upon which I can stand… can take a stand… can stand firm. Doesn … more →
The 25 Greatest Essay Collections of All Time
wrote 2 months ago: Today marks the release of Aleksandar Hemon’s excellent book of personal essays, The Book of M … more →
Holding Court a poem by Clive James.
wrote 2 months ago: ‘Holding Court‘ TLS 28th February 2013 They are the deeply moving words of a man comin … more →
Winter
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 →
Live Poet’s Society
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 →
Argument by Diktat
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wrote 3 months ago: I’m becoming increasingly frustrated by writers whose style is characterized to a large extent by wh … more →
Mesmerizing patterns in colorful silk....
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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 →
Concentration and Libraries Are Acrimoniously Divorced. By C.p. Singleton (c) 2013
wrote 3 months ago: So I sit, as comfortable as an athritic On a cold, damp day. I’m inside Sittingbourne Library … more →
What is 'reading'?: A failed blog post about books
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 →
Will Self isn't even trying any more
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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 →
Tall Poppies
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wrote 4 months ago: Wishing to avoid all internet filters and the attention of international authorities and domestic po … more →
