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Nov 4, 2009, 4:11 pm
See these people? See how happy they are? They're down on their knees, clutching their hands together in prayer, waving their mass-produced, church-funded banners! They're ecstatic with religi... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2009, 7:47 am
Two items in today's newspapers here that throw an oblique light on each other and on Italian society as a whole. The first is about the decision of the Ku Klux Klan to conduct a recruitment camp... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2009, 6:10 am
I've just discovered that Little Monsters (still available from all good booksellers) has found its way onto the long list of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It's a very long li... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2009, 4:43 am
If you need help with problems regarding your love life, business activities, personal enemies and sexual equipment (and, let's face it, who doesn't?), happen to live in or near Johannesburg a... Comment - Like
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Nov 1, 2009, 5:13 pm
I was given the chance to read A.C. Tillyer’s extremely impressive début collection An A-Z of Possible Worlds a couple of months ago. This is what I wrote:
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Nov 1, 2009, 2:46 am
Another great Amazon recommendation:
Greetings from Amazon.co.uk,
As someone who has purchased or rated Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions) by E.M. Forster, you might like to know that Wicked All Da... Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2009, 10:53 am
Some time ago I wrote a piece on this blog about my encounter many years ago with the poet, critic, patron and all-round literary marvel, Jonathan Williams, who had recently died. A slightly revised -... Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2009, 10:35 am
I just came across this extraordinary document by the son of the poet, Louis Zukofsky. What a piece of shit he appears to be, though there's something almost admirable about his determination to p... Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2009, 3:42 am
Suddenly everything is clear... It's all one excellent adventure. Comment - Like
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Oct 18, 2009, 5:54 am
Lionel Shriver has written an interesting piece on the way her family reacted to a novel in which they felt they'd been portrayed unjustly. As someone who's currently working on a story that d... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2009, 9:44 am
As anyone who follows this blog will know, I've received some strange Amazon recommendations in the past. You know, the ones that start: "As someone who has purchased or rated...' You can see ... Comment - Like
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Oct 8, 2009, 4:57 am
I haven't posted a video by Pat Condell recently, so here's his latest. Comment - Like
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Oct 4, 2009, 4:50 pm
OK, here goes. I’ve been fretting about this Polanski business ever since his arrest – like practically everyone else in the western world I hadn’t given it more than the occasional thought befo... Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2009, 1:24 pm
Another self-promoting post, I'm afraid. Here's a two-page glimpse of the first number of the new Cambridge Literary Review, which not only contains this poem, written in 1973, but also a memo... Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2009, 9:02 am
East of the Web and Wordia have collaborated on a new project. It's called Link 7 and this is what East of the Web has to say about it:
In partnership with Wordia, the video dictionary, East of th... Comment - Like
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Sep 26, 2009, 7:30 am
First item on the lunchtime news programme on RAI 1 today was a hurriedly organised photo opportunity for Berlusconi and Benedict 16 at Rome's second airport. B16 said it was a 'joy' to se... Comment - Like
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Sep 24, 2009, 3:29 am
I wrote a short post almost two years about Italy's ex-Royals, Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia and his appalling family, when the whole ungrateful gang decided to sue the Italian state to the tune of ... Comment - Like
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Sep 23, 2009, 11:41 am
Productive dialogue is relatively easy among equals, perhaps because it's supported by a kind of openness that occurs when no one feels under threat and when the basic aim of the dialogue - greate... Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2009, 12:40 pm
Now I know how to deal with negative reviews. I just need to find the kids... Comment - Like
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Sep 21, 2009, 11:29 am
Remember him? That's right, it's young Renzo Bossi, son of Umberto "Bingo Bongo" Bossi, currently minister in Papi Berlusconi's cabinet, may god preserve us. Daddy's in charge of refor... Comment - Like
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Sep 21, 2009, 4:28 am
There's a long post to be written about Fondi and the Mafia, so long that I haven't time to do it today. But I'll find the time, I hope, before Friday when the town will be host to a natio... Comment - Like
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Sep 20, 2009, 7:06 am
To what appears to be general indifference, the press room in Rome city hall has just been dedicated to Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist who died three years ago in Florence after having spent m... Comment - Like
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Sep 19, 2009, 5:15 pm
Last Tuesday evening, prime time television on the main state channel (RAI 1) was devoted to Silvio Berlusconi,as regular readers of this blog will know. Alternatives to Berlusconi - with the exceptio... Comment - Like
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Sep 14, 2009, 12:23 pm
My thanks (or should that be thnaks?) for this to Cynical-C Blog. It's good to know that independent journalism is alive and well and educating its viewers in all corners of the free world. The hi... Comment - Like
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Sep 12, 2009, 8:27 am
Well, Mike Bongiorno's dead. If you've never heard of him you don't live in Italy; if you do and still haven't heard of him, you were walled into a television-free zone many decades ag... Comment - Like
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Sep 7, 2009, 4:37 pm
Last Friday, Dino Boffo, the editor of the Catholic newspaper, Avvenire, decided to resign after having been attacked and accused of hypocrisy by one of Berlusconi's house rags (Il Giornale, owned... Comment - Like
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Sep 7, 2009, 10:34 am
One of the best things about power is that the rest of us can watch people fall from it. Ceausescu, for example. Who can forget the two-bit tyrant’s face as the crowd beneath his balcony told him, i... Comment - Like
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Sep 3, 2009, 9:05 am
You can buy this fridge magnet from Mormons Exposed.
And that's not all. They also do a great calendar. You must have wondered what those Mormon boys look like with those cute little suits stripp... Comment - Like
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Sep 2, 2009, 7:01 am
As a sop to the thirsty for blood electorate of the Northern League, who seem to regard anyone born south of Florence as, in the words of their noble leader Umberto Bossi, bingo bongo, the Italian gov... Comment - Like
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Aug 29, 2009, 7:52 am
One of my favourite artists (and, I admit it, a very good friend) Paola Casalino will be showing some of her work at Taunton Public Library, Taunton, Somerset, from the 1st to the 12th of September. T... Comment - Like
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Aug 28, 2009, 7:11 am
Silvio Berlusconi has just taken the extraordinary step of suing Repubblica on the grounds that the ten questions the newspaper has been asking him (click to embiggen above or see here) since the Pap... Comment - Like
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Aug 27, 2009, 5:28 am
Earlier this year Freedom House placed Italy 73rd in its liberty of the press league table, classifying the country as 'partly free', a status it shares with Turkey, Burkina Faso and Haiti. Th... Comment - Like
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Aug 25, 2009, 5:33 am
A fascinating interview with a great cover designer, and more, on Caustic Cover Critic, one of my favourite blogs: informative, thorughly well-researched and frequently side-splittingly funny. In this... Comment - Like
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Aug 14, 2009, 4:15 pm
I went to the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol yesterday. I've known about the place for years, but the last time I was in Bristol, in autumn 1975, I was looking for a job and don't remember even ... Comment - Like
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Aug 8, 2009, 1:47 am
I was party to a fascinating, albeit inadvertent social experiment a couple of evenings ago. We were still in Fondi, floored by the sweltering heat of the past month or so. Even our house, which has y... Comment - Like
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Aug 6, 2009, 12:49 pm
I'm off on my summer hols tomorrow morning and won't be back for two whole rain-filled weeks (yes, I'm back in the United Kingdom), so try to keep your expectations low as far as my postin... Comment - Like
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Aug 3, 2009, 2:28 pm
There's a typically Italian kerfuffle going on here at the moment about the authorisation of Ru486, the pill that induces abortion. It's used pretty much everywhere in the developed world, but... Comment - Like
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Aug 3, 2009, 8:11 am
See any difference? That's right. I've changed template here so that YouTube videos fit more comfortably, and font size so that you can read me more easily. Any so-called close friend who tell... Comment - Like
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