An online notebook
John Self at Palimpsest has already got on the bandwagon for the latest Sean Wright opus, the superbly titled Wicked or What? See his initial pre-publication posting here. The notoriously sane Jesse Jameson blog also covers this exciting release.
Watched Shaun of the Dead last night, an Amazon Rental DVD. The only one of the three that arrived on Friday without a crack in it. Still, it was an excellent, funny film and I recommend it. I emailed Amazon on Friday night about the bust DVDs, and got an email back saying replacements were … Keep reading
How good does this look exactly? From The Guardian: The problem with popular culture is its popularity: if lots of people like something, it is by no means a guarantee that it is going to be any good. And the music that I loved as a teenager went, quite often, out of its way to … Keep reading
Just bought 3 books for the price of 2 from Waterstones, my first book purchases for some time. Here’s what I got, along with a relevant review from The Guardian. Small Island – Andrea Levy Andrea Levy’s narrative switches between four protagonists. The first, Queenie, is Gilbert’s white landlady; they met during wartime when he … Keep reading
Fascinating article in Saturday’s Guardian about the poet E.E. Cummings: EE Cummings became one of America’s most popular poets. But as a struggling young writer and artist, he was supported by a wealthy friend and soon found himself drawn to his patron’s wife. Their tangled relationship was to end in tragedy, reveals biographer Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno