During my hiatus due to festive times, the centenary anniversary of a great writer came and went: Arthur C Clarke. As a teenager, I was enthralled by his science-fiction tales that tasted of science. And anyone involved in the screenplay of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey deserves a mention any day of the year. …
Another year may have started but at the tail of end of 2017, we received another article on the lack of diversity in publishing – this time focused on the UK. I mention this because I would like to see greater diversity in diversity articles. They are all the same: statistics showing that white middle-class …
Always lovely to get any insight into life at the US President’s house – and the great thing is that there are official publicity shots. Now I wouldn’t want to be the one to ridicule the most powerful man in the world but his own actions do that for me. So thanks to The Guardian …
There is something satisfying in discovering how mediocre literary sex is, reflecting the level of mediocrity of real-world sex – according to The Guardian. The piece includes classic lines like “I might get frostbite on my cock.” The reason I mention the awards is that I am very aware of how hard are sex scenes …
Research just out shows that people believe science fiction comprise a bunch of dumbed down stories, according to The Guardian. Academics have taken the same narrative and presented it in literary and genre forms to test subjects to see how they respond to the same story in a different context. When people read about airlocks …
As I hope you have already heard, the last story ever written by Raymond Chandler has been discovered in the archives and is a seering indictment of the US healthcare system – from a 1958, the year before he died. This was a far cry from his detective series involving the ever-knowing Philip Marlowe. This …
Say what you will, there’s nothing like a totally futile author spat to keep the book pages filled. The times we are living in are peculiar indeed but some things have always been certain. First, Christopher Hitchens knows how to vex and offend, even if he is right. Second, Deborah Orr should know better than …
Male/female writer spat splats onto the page. Shock? Read More »
I would like to focus your attention on a review for a new book by Mark Cousins on the act of seeing. While not exactly brimming with positivity, it does embrace the idea that thinking about the act of looking is worth the effort. This reminded me of a couple of experiences from my past: …
Another piece on words, but I feel no sense of shame about that. This time neologisms: new words as announced by a dictionary compiler and reported by The Guardian. Thanks to a certain US political figure (he’s the politician for whom I dare not speak his name) the phrase at the top of the list …
The complete and utter excitement event of the year has been and gone with the Man Booker Prize. And even though it is British competition, another American has won it – again. With the change in rules a couple of years ago, eligibility was expanded to include those not born in the UK. Put another …
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