BETA - what's this?
My first major influence was P.G. Wodehouse (though my humour has broadened). Then there is Franz Kafka (though my reality is narrower).
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January 1, 2009
We are in the throes of a full-throttle blizzard which has been going for the past eight hours.
December 31, 2008
Will Amateur Booksellers Kill Publishing?
December 30, 2008
December 24, 2008
And who can/should/dare argue with the LIBRARY JOURNAL?
December 17, 2008
This past weekend I looked after a dog whilst her owners went out of town. Tibbit is a big, friendly dawg who likes inspecting piles of leaves.
(CLARIFICATION: Paula Guran emailed to straighten out an ambiguity in her origina
December 13, 2008
December 10, 2008
Oxford University Press has removed words like "aisle", "bishop", "chapel", "empire" and "monarch" from its Junior Dictionary and replaced them wit
December 9, 2008
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, the most recent Nobel Prize winner in Literature, has some words on the subject in his Nobel speech.
December 7, 2008
End papers or end times - who can tell the difference?
Typing Without a Clue
December 6, 2008
. . . actually the size of a coffee table.
December 3, 2008
Unless - of course - they send you a rejection letter.
December 1, 2008
It is not so much that I don't look at those innumerable 'best of year' lists - it's that I forget them by the next day. It's the same with movie and sports and sexy person lists.
November 28, 2008
