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Book reviews
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Nobody Hurt In Small Earthquake – Michael Green
Towards The End Of The Morning – Michael Frayn
A Crooked Sixpence – Murray Sayle
Monday Mourning – Kathy Reichs
The Group – Mary McCarthy
Fear And Loathing In Fitzrovia – Paul Willetts
The Daughter Of Time – Josephine Tey
The Man Who Wasn’t There: A Life Of Ernest Hemingway – Richard Bradford
The Maltese Falcon — Dashiell Hammett
Hemingway: The Postwar Years And The Posthumous Novels – Rose Marie Burwell
To Have And Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway: a biography — Mary Dearborn
The True Gen - Denis Brian
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Running With Bulls — Valerie Hemingway
The Sea — John Banville
Mrs Hemingway — Naomi Wood
Saturday — Ian McEwan
Berlin Game — Len Deighton
Decline And Fall — Evelyn Waugh
The Colour — Rose Tremain
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Film reviews
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Once Upon A Time In The West
Mulholland Drive
The Gentlemen
A Time To Kill
The Irishman
The Revenant
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Saturday, 27 March 2021
PS to the previous entry: three very enjoyable pieces of music (though, perhaps, not to everyone’s taste) by Stockhausen, Schoenberg and Webern
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In a previous post I spoke about ‘abstraction’ in music, painting and — possibly — writing. Just now, to make my point about how some of us,...
Monday, 15 March 2021
More piccies to delight small minds (and large ones if you have one)
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All these images are nothing put dicking around with Photoshop, manipulating snaps I took. I like them as I like a lot of abstract stuff, wh...
Friday, 12 March 2021
So what might ‘abstract writing’ be (apart from, sadly, a little tedious the longer it went on)?
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GIVEN that who was a modernist artist and what constituted a modernist work is these days unhelpfully vague, it is not an easy subject to ta...
Monday, 1 March 2021
A few piccies
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A few more piccies, taken on a dog walk today, then dicked around with in Photoshop. The idea is to produce (I hope) interesting and attract...
Thursday, 11 February 2021
How do you get from ‘devil dogs’, the red tops and keeping in with Fleet Street news desks to EC president Ursula von der Leyen, her cock-ups, EU tardiness, Brexit and covid and the vaccines to a pointless, drunken spat I had with my sister? Er, I don’t know. So just read on. Once you’ve found out — if you find out — get in touch, ’cos I like to know myself
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PS I had, as my next post, intended to post loads of semi-inarticulate images and pose the question ‘When is art art and when is it just a l...
Saturday, 30 January 2021
Lockdown or no, it’s time to take a — guilt-free — day off
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For well over a year, I’ve been contributing to a website called Deadlines For Writers . I know I have mentioned it before, but as some read...
Monday, 18 January 2021
Constructing ‘Papa’ Hemingway: What will it be — ‘pure artist’ or ‘national celebrity’?
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This is the latest piece I have written for my blog about that old phoney Ernest Hemingway , looking at why folk think he was such a good wr...
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