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Dec 13, 2009, 5:39 am
Unusually, as Amazon suggestions go, this one tempted me. Maybe because Louis and Pious are almost, but not quite, a visual rhyme. And then I saw the price.
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Dec 12, 2009, 1:04 pm
I'm not sure if this is an offence to, and crass misunderstanding of, the nature of the original work or a useful and evocative reading of it (I suspect the former), but either way it's worth ... Comment - Like
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Dec 12, 2009, 12:51 pm
This is as festive as I plan to get, so far anyway (though I'll admit I was tempted by the Twelve Gays of Christmas). It's Dylan, who can (almost) do no wrong, and I think it's played stra... Comment - Like
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Dec 10, 2009, 1:39 pm
Are you enjoying the latest cat-fight as much as I am? I'm talking about the one between the Vatican and the Northern League, after Roberto Calderoli, minister for simplification (and they don'... Comment - Like
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Dec 10, 2009, 5:10 am
Berlusconi and his trained seal, justice minister Alfano, have been crowing about their latest victories against the Mafia - two arrests that just happened to coincide with the anti-Berlusconi march i... Comment - Like
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Dec 9, 2009, 4:42 pm
I discovered an interesting fact about Italy's National Research Council (CNR) today, thanks to a letter in Repubblica. The CNR is a state-financed public organization that, according to its websi... Comment - Like
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Dec 8, 2009, 10:18 am
According to Boing Boing, garden gnomes can take £15,000 off the value of your house. I wonder what Chomsky would have to say about that. Comment - Like
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Dec 6, 2009, 12:00 pm
Scott Pack says this is one of the best things you'll see this year. You have to be a book-lover for this to be true, but I'm sure you are, otherwise you wouldn't be here. You can buy a hu... Comment - Like
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Dec 3, 2009, 4:24 pm
I've spent too much time today trying to get our television in the kitchen to work. Or, to be more precise, trying to get our NEW television in the kitchen to work. Everything was fine until a fe... Comment - Like
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Dec 1, 2009, 2:03 am
I've just finished my usual round-up of the day's English language papers, sitting here at my desk in a small provincial Italian town, without even having left the house. I've read the Gua... Comment - Like
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Nov 27, 2009, 5:11 am
If you're in Rome on 5 December you might like to take part in No-Berlusconi Day, the product of a viral campaign to eject the Buffoon from power before he does any more damage. Don't be put o... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2009, 8:51 am
A couple of weeks ago I met up with Rob, the man behind one of the most interesting and wide-ranging literary blogs around, The Fiction Desk. We had an excellent lunch and talked about, among other th... Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2009, 12:48 pm
Today's thought comes from The Waste Books, by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hit... Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2009, 7:43 am
Amazon has just posted the cover of my next novel, published by Picador in May 2010, which makes it feel oddly official. Here it is. You can pre-order from the big boys here and from Book Depository, ... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 8:50 am
The France Soir correspondent in Rome, Ariel Dumont, has just been sacked for being anti-Berlusconian. This isn't what the paper says, of course. The editor talks about the need to rationalise its... Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2009, 2:38 am
A lovely piece of self-fulfilling reporting yesterday on RAI One's evening news. They were talking about the appointments made by the EU for president and foreign minister. After telling us that n... Comment - Like
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Nov 19, 2009, 3:46 am
People in Britain are right to be worried about the BNP, but even Griffin and his mean-spirited cronies might think twice before imitating the Northern League council of Colacchio*, a small town near ... Comment - Like
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Nov 15, 2009, 6:09 am
That Berlusconi and his associates don't trust certain magistrates hardly needs repeating. But it's odd how much faith they put in the due process of law when they're trying to shut up som... Comment - Like
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Nov 13, 2009, 10:30 am
This cleverly designed bag with the handy noose-shaped handle might be the closest we'll ever get to seeing justice done in Italy. It's the old story. You've read it here on this blog a te... Comment - Like
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Nov 9, 2009, 8:42 am
My Facebook friends will already have seen this video, but why keep all the good stuff for them? It's funny, and sad, and harrowing and you don't need to have seen the sanctimonious bitch'... Comment - Like
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Nov 9, 2009, 4:21 am
Today's thought comes from the collection of Georges Perec's occasional writings, Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (beautifully translated by John Sturrock). It's part three of a short p... Comment - Like
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Nov 8, 2009, 11:00 am
One of the great pleasures of sitting at a computer for hours on end pretending to edit reports about food security in the Philippines is that you can nip over to Marie Phillips' blog every now an... Comment - Like
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Nov 8, 2009, 6:53 am
If you have a scrap of rationality and the merest modicum of scientific knowledge, here's a video which will make you laugh until you weep. You just have to get to it before the lawyers pull it do... Comment - Like
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Nov 6, 2009, 1:07 am
Last night's edition of Anno Zero talked about Fondi, the town I've lived in for the past eight years. Anno Zero is one of the programmes Berlusconi accuses of being fazioso, a holdall term th... Comment - Like
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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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