Blogs about: Penelope Fitzgerald

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BOM: Bride of the Wolf, Jennifer St. Giles -seconds please!9 comments

pennyfitz wrote 1 month ago: BRIDE OF THE WOLF SHADOWMEN BOOK FOUR Pocket Books Release Date: April 28th, 2009 Bride of the Wolf … more →

Tags: General, Book of the Month Club, Jennifer St. Giles, Paranormal, Review, Shadomen Series, werewolf

BOM: Bride of the Wolf, Jennifer St Giles5 comments

pennyfitz wrote 2 months ago: BRIDE OF THE WOLF SHADOWMEN BOOK FOUR Pocket Books Release Date: April 28th, 2009 Bride of the Wolf … more →

Tags: General, New Releases, Reviews, Book of the Month Club, werewolf, Jennifer St. Giles, shadowmen

Offshore - Penelope Fitzgerald8 comments

savidgereads wrote 2 months ago: I personally think that when you open a book that you know very little about and start to read it yo … more →

Tags: Man Booker, Review

still life

rarebestie wrote 3 months ago: E’ passata lieve seguendo la linea del lungo guinzaglio. I capelli raccolti stretti, nessun so … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

Seven Reading Notes6 comments

karlo mikhail wrote 4 months ago: 1. Read Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Blue Flower over the weekend as part of my efforts to read m … more →

Tags: bibliophilia, Andrew Minh, Anna Karenina, Bedroom Revolutionary, Books, Damion Searls, Dashiell Hammett, Ismail Kadare, Kadare

Philosophical Waxing

twins4reading wrote 4 months ago: As I’ve often said, “If you’re not waxing philosophical then you better be waxing … more →

Tags: Scrubs, floor wax, Philosophical Waxing, PG-13, Netflix, Salman Rushdie, TC Boyle, quod erat demonstratum

"Culture is for amateurs. I can't run my shop at a loss. Shakespeare was a professional!"

onparkstreet wrote 4 months ago: From Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop. … more →

Tags: Excerpt, Books, writing

The Bookshop

mystrygirl87 wrote 6 months ago: The first few chapters of The Bookshop were a reread for me, as I had been unable to finish it over … more →

Tags: Reviews

PF on Billy Budd

courtney wrote 6 months ago: From The World Review 1952. … more →

Tags: essays, Billy Budd, The World Review, Herman Melville

Penelope Knox at Oxford.

courtney wrote 6 months ago: Three more glimpses into PF’s Oxford days. In The Curse of a Literary Education is short and … more →

Tags: Juvenilia, The Cherwell, Oxford

Saramago and 50 Christmas Words Competition2 comments

drewgum wrote 7 months ago: There’s a great interview with Jose Saramago over on the Guardian site this week. If you don’t know, … more →

Tags: Short Stories, bums, writing, films, Me and Mickie James, Books, Globalisation, Saramago, 50 words

The Beginning of Spring, part II

courtney wrote 9 months ago: The second of a few guest posts by blogger, David Neel, who is a writer, reader, and Associate Profe … more →

Tags: the beginning of spring, The Beginning of Spring, David-Neel.

The Means of Escape1 comment

courtney wrote 9 months ago: A nice post from Westminster Wisdom about Fitzgerald’s short story, “The Means of Escape … more →

Tags: Booktalk, The Means of Escape

de Kretser for The Australian

courtney wrote 9 months ago: Fans of Penelope Fitzgerald’s “The Means of Escape” have reveled in her depiction … more →

Tags: Reviews, So I Have Thought of You, Michelle de Kretser, The Australian

"The Importance of Small Things" part II

courtney wrote 9 months ago: In this second excerpt from Edmund Gordon’s long essay, a consideration of narrative structure … more →

Tags: Innocence, Literary criticism, Edmund Gordon, Chekhov

The Beginning of Spring, part I

courtney wrote 9 months ago: The first of a few guest posts by blogger, David Neel, (who also happens to be Associate Professor o … more →

Tags: the beginning of spring, The Beginning of Spring, David-Neel.

chatter

courtney wrote 9 months ago: We love it that a pop culture blog like PopLife linked to Rosemary Hill’s review of So I Have … more →

Tags: Booktalk, So I Have Thought of You, the blue flower, Rosemary Hill

"The Importance of Small Things"

courtney wrote 10 months ago: In his essay on Penelope Fitzgerald, London based journalist, Edmund Gordon, examines the extraordin … more →

Tags: offshore, Literary criticism, Edmund Gordon, John Bayley, John McGahern

Another unpublished letter to Francesca White

courtney wrote 10 months ago: This one, like its mate, contains such lovely glimpses into PF’s vision of her daughters. 25, … more →

Tags: unpublished material, unpublished correspondence


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