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Taylor Bright wrote 5 days ago: Maud NewtonStephen King reviews Raymond Carver’s biography and a collection of short stories. … more →

Tags: Books, back matter, Stephen King, Walt Whitman, Michael Crichton, Günter Grass, Andrew Motion, zadie smith, Paul Theroux

Annette The Author's Book Recommendation - The Sea

Annette Julia Dunlea wrote 5 days ago: Title: The Sea Author:  John Banville Paperback: 200 pages Publisher: Picador; New edition edition ( … more →

Tags: Literary Blogs, The Sea

Bad Sex Writing - Like A Sexy Guillotine

Taylor Bright wrote 6 days ago: Amos Oz The Guardian continues with its coverage of the Bad Sex Writing Awards today. Sarah Duncan t … more →

Tags: Books, Philip Roth, amos oz, Richard Milward

Baaaaad sex time again!2 comments

joyciescotland wrote 6 days ago: 2009 has been a year of cringingly cheesy and often physically implausible coitus, in books of cours … more →

Tags: Authors, Awards, Books, 2009, Bad Sex Award, Literary Review, Philip Roth

Old Man Forgets Sex Writes Badly About It

Taylor Bright wrote 1 week ago: With his last book, I’m officially not a fan of Philip Roth, but I’m not the only one. T … more →

Tags: Books, Philip Roth, Nick Cave, Paul Theroux, amos oz, jonathan littell, Auberon waugh

Benefit Gala at the Irish Writers' Centre

Catriona wrote 1 week ago: There’s been a few events that we’ve been desperately wanting to go to recently, but thi … more →

Tags: Books, Irish Writers Centre, Seamus Heaney, John F. Deane

An Ageless Husband

Taylor Bright wrote 2 weeks ago: Over at The Daily Beast, Tina Brown’s husband, Harold Evans, gets a feature about his new book … more →

Tags: Journalism, Books, Tina Brown, peter stothard, Harold Evans

Review of John Banville's Mefisto

John Walsh wrote 3 weeks ago: John Banville is one of the great contemporary authors and his books are always fascinating and beau … more →

Tags: Review, Literary Fiction

6. The Sea by John Banville - Pt. 11 comment

imcintosh12 wrote 4 weeks ago: The Sea by John Banville opened beautifully. It isn’t often that I am pulled in from the very first … more →

Tags: Books on the list, The Sea

Memory Dislikes Motion

arandomreview wrote 4 weeks ago: A review of John Banville’s The Sea My fourteen year-old self, in the last stages of lankiness … more →

Tags: Novels, The Sea, Review

book review: The Sea

mconrsullivan wrote 1 month ago: a gorgeously composed, brief novel about grief and loss and haunting, if imperfect, memories.  if yo … more →

Tags: Religion, blogs, Quotes, Book Review, God, Memory, Valhalla

with a cutlass in my teeth

mconrsullivan wrote 1 month ago: thoughts about living in the past from John Banville’s The Sea.  while I can’t say this … more →

Tags: Books, Livings & Dyings, rememberings, Quotes

Authors Book Recommendation - The Infinites

Annette Julia Dunlea wrote 1 month ago: Title: The Infinites Author: John Banville Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Picador (4 Sep 2009) ISBN … more →

Tags: Literary Blogs, Bestseller, Fiction, Literary, The Infinities

Fringe: Copernicus

neandellus wrote 2 months ago: Copernicus, by Sam Davison Transit Theatre @ Melbourne Planetarium Wed. 23 Sep. to Sun. 4 Oct. Fring … more →

Tags: Review, SPARK, Bruce Kerr, Copernicus, Sam Davison, Maciek Staniewicz, Ian Rooney, Gus Macmillan, toni smith

Back to Noir2 comments

ppeditor wrote 2 months ago: PP readers may already know of my obsession with Erle Stanley Gardner, in particular his Perry Mason … more →

Tags: BBC4, Erle Stanley Gardner, Georges Simenon, Perry Mason, The Paris Review

Evening is the Whole Day1 comment

ambergold wrote 2 months ago: Finished Preeta Samarasan’s debut novel Evening is the Whole Day, and it was wonderful. After … more →

Tags: International Lit, Literature, Reviews, Evening is the Whole Day, evening is the whole day review, preeta samarasan, The Sea

the sea.

Molly wrote 3 months ago: I’m reading this book, by John Banville, again. 3rd time? I’ve lost count. Highly recomm … more →

Tags: others' words, WorDs, NaBloPoMo, The Sea

john banville.

Molly wrote 3 months ago: A favorite writer of mine. I think this quote from Eclipse is beautiful, but his book The Sea still … more →

Tags: others' words, WorDs, NaBloPoMo, Eclipse, The Sea

The Newton Letter by John Banville

thehungryreader wrote 4 months ago: I had borrowed this book from the library a long long time ago and I somehow happened to pick it up … more →

Tags: Review, Literary Fiction, newton, novella, Irish, Historical Fiction


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