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Author Archives: clivedav184z
Escaping the bright lights
Good to see John Updike’s Q&A with the Paris Review back in circulation on Twitter. I’ve always loved this part: INTERVIEWER You seem to shun literary society. Why? UPDIKE I don’t, do I? Here I am, talking to you. In leaving … Continue reading
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Turntable
“Live in Brittany”, the new album by The Celtic Fiddle Festival. TradConnect has a review.
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Bums on seats
The Rolling Stones and Joe Public: from Robert Greenfield’s oral biography of pioneering rock promoter Bill Graham.
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The teenager who triggered Kristallnacht
The LA Times reviews a biography of Herschel Grynszpan, the young Polish Jew whose shooting of a German official became the pretext for a night of terror: The assassin fully expected to be hailed as a hero among Jews around the … Continue reading
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A musician in the making
A lovely tale about the late Colin Davis, from Bryan Magee’s evocative coming-of-age memoir, “Growing Up In A War”. As pupils at Christ’s Hospital in the 1940s, Magee and Davis had to endure the sharp tongue of a smug, bullying … Continue reading
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Less is more
Harry Connick Jr does his best to teach “American Idol” contestants how to sing standards. But were they listening? [Via jumokefashola]
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Notebook
What Campbell and his five men endured beggars belief, even in the steely annals of Antarctic hardship. They had been out from February 1911 until November 1913… In January 1912 they were picked up by the Terra Nova on her … Continue reading
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