Reading

I found A Prayer for Owen Meany this morning, thank God. Wedged between two bookcases. Good job I didn’t buy another copy yesterday! Instead, I did get three books: Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides Any Human Heart – William Boyd The Cider House Rules – John Irving Which should keep me going for a while…

A terrible thing has happened. I rushed home this evening to finish off the last few pages of A Prayer for Owen Meany, only to find that it has gone! Vanished! I cannot find it anywhere! I am appalled, aghast and upset. So much so, that I had to start reading The Wasp Factory immediately … Keep reading

Great piece from The Times on Arthur Miller, written by Erica Wagner. Thanks to John Naughton for the link. Why the 20th century was the century of Arthur Miller His dramatisation of the 17th-century Salem witch trials has continuing resonances PERHAPS the 21st century will be remembered as the American century; although just now, at … Keep reading

What a terrible shame. ABC News: Playwright Arthur Miller Dies

Transcript of a talk by my favourite living novelist on (one of) my favourite dead novelist(s). Here.