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• Melvyn Bragg on trust and truth in The South Bank Show

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 954
  Melvyn Bragg considers the influence of The South Bank Show.
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• Short is sweet when it comes to fiction

  
  Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 132
  Novels dont have to be long to say something — just look at A Clockwork Orange, The Great Gatsby and The Outsider, all of which barely break the 100-page barrier and fit nicely in your back pocket What have On Chesil Beach, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Don DeLillos Point Omega got in common? Bewitching ...
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• Martin Amis Sees Islam as a School for Wayward Girls

  
  http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor — Authority: 652
  Martin Amis sexism is so constant and absurd that its almost not worth cataloging, but his latest insult to womankind rehashes two of his more spectacular claims: that sexual freedom is dangerous for women, and that Islam is the solution. This week the British novelist told Abu Dhabis The National that he thinks ...
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• In search of a good read | John Crace

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  High-quality novels are harder to find in this overpublished age, but dont blame ghosted celeb efforts – or overlook genre fiction Peter B Kyne; ASM Hutchinson; Gertrude Atherton; Edna Ferber. The names mean anything to you? Me neither. All four featured on the end of year US fiction top 10 bestseller lists in the ...
  1 day ago

• Martin Amis: I wish my sister had converted to Islam

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Martin Amis suggests to Dubai English-language newspaper that his sister, an alcoholic who died in 2000, "might still be alive" if she had converted to Islam Martin Amis might have expressed negative views about Islam in the past, but the author told an Abu Dhabi newspaper this week that he believed that if his ...
  2 days ago

• Dan Franklin: I am a tart. I am deeply shallow

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  He is the publishing colossus behind Britains superstar authors. How does Dan Franklin stay ahead? He talks to Susanna Rustin about McEwan, Amis – and the death of the boozy lunch Every Monday morning, Dan Franklin scours the book charts on Amazon to find out if the weekend reviews of his authors books have done ...
  4 days ago

• How the ICA came to symbolise Liberal Cowardice

  
  Nick Cohen: Writing from London — Authority: 408
  From Standpoint There is much to talk about in Ian McEwan’s Solar .  As I say in today’s Observer , he makes a hat tip to John Updike and allows the great issue of global warming to be explained through the devious manoeuvres of a slobby and disreputable hero, Michael Beard. However, McEwan goes to ...
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• Ian McEwans Solar: its green and it should be read | Nick Cohen

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  At last, global warming inspires good fiction. And scientists are the rightful heroes Gossip columnists long ago supplanted the literary editors in media hierarchies, and a writer must be grateful if the press greets the publication of his or her book with anything so quaint as a discussion of its literary merit. ...
  5 days ago

• Alzheimers isnt the end of the world

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Alzheimers is one of the diseases we most dread. But American expert John Zeisel, says theres a better – more positive – way to view it Shakespeare, says Alzheimers expert John Zeisel, could not have been more wrong. In the famous seven ages of man speech in As You Like It he described old age as "second ...
  6 days ago

• Ian McEwan: Criticising Islam is not racist

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 954
  Ian McEwan has insisted that criticising Islam is not racist and blamed left-leaning thinkers for "closing down the debate".
  6 days ago

• Solar by Ian McEwan: review

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 954
  Lorna Bradbury declares Solar by Ian McEwan, a dark satire about climate change, to be his finest work to date
  1 week ago

• NETFLIX HIDDEN GEMS: March ‘10

  
  / HAMMER TO NAIL — Authority: 490
  After last month’s open call in which we suggested readers submit their own Netflix Hidden Gems titles, we were quite pleased to receive this fine list from the filmmaking duo Playa516 . If you too have a stack of Netflixable titles that you think are overlooked, or if you are inspired to make your own creative ...
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• Young Hitler: No beekeepers arse this time, just a man of God

  
  Madame Arcati — Authority: 419
  I see the fabulous Naim Attallah and his Quartet Books is releasing a "non-fiction novel" in April called Young Hitler . It was the boastful Truman Capote who first brought this category - the non-fiction novel - to my attention, with his bestseller  In Cold Blood and then the unfinished, promising Answered ...
  2 weeks ago

• Anna Ford would despair of my talents as a godmother

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  It is lovely to be made a godparent. But I really havent a clue how to do the job properly What an amazing spat between Anna Ford and Martin Amis. You rarely see proper mud-slinging from celebrities who are quite so posh; its like a row between Jordan and Kerry Katona, but with natural breasts and three-syllable ...
  2 weeks ago

• The epistolary duelling of Anna Ford and Martin Amis | Kathryn Hughes

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Literary history is littered with old friends like Anna Ford and Martin Amis feuding by letter You have only to take a quick look at the epic history of literary epistolary feuds to realise that the "literary" bit is nearly always a fig leaf to cover deeper and more tender hurts. Certainly thats the case with the ...
  2 weeks ago

• What makes people think its a good time to be old? | Alexander Chancellor

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  I cant imagine why an ageing society is something to celebrate The prime minister has invited me to a reception in Downing Street next week for "celebrating our ageing society". Although, having just turned 70, I am clearly "ageing", I cannot imagine why I have been asked. Nor can I imagine why an ageing society is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Anna Ford v Martin Amis – the final episode (for now)

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Latest letter adopts conciliatory tone over smoking at her husbands deathbed but Ford still claims Amis failed to help her Just when you thought you had heard the last of the epistolary fisticuffs between Anna Ford and her late husbands friends Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens, we bring you a final open letter ...
  3 weeks ago

• Michael Tomasky: This latest Martin Amis business

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  I dont have a dog in the Martin-Amis v. Anna Ford fight, though I have been reading about it with interest. I will say that its a more positive appearance by Amis than the one in which he suggested that Muslims be denied the right of international travel (for starters). Speaking of which: the real point of this post ...
  3 weeks ago

• It has been a fabulous week for public spats | Hadley Freeman

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Cheryl Coles T-shirts just about have the edge on Anna Fords and Martin Amiss letters Should any celebrity – or, as at least two of the people we shall be discussing today no doubt prefer to think of themselves, "person in the public eye" – be wondering why they are generally viewed as attention-seeking ...
  3 weeks ago

• Christopher Hitchens joins the fray: writer backs Martin Amis in row with Anna Ford

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Hitchens, the third man in the room, backs novelists version of what happened at Mark Boxers deathbed Now come the reinforcements. A third combatant has rolled up his sleeves and hurled himself into the epistolary brawl between novelist Martin Amis and former newscaster Anna Ford: writer Christopher Hitchens . A ...
  3 weeks ago

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