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I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgement and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.' Saul Bellow

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Category: miscellaneous (continued)
Category: music
Category: politics
- Five things Feminism has done for me (9)
- (almost) funny police story (4)
- 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (2)
- A Bumper Sticker (1)
- A Chance to Speak (4)
- A New Home In London? (1)
- A Poem by Julius Chingono (6)
- Acts of Destruction - Mat Coward (3)
- Advertisers Rule - OK (1)
- Amazon Prices (2)
- Amazon Trickery
- America in denial over gun control (37)
- America still in denial over gun control (32)
- American KidLit
- Amis and Eagleton (2)
- Amnesty International & Turkey (2)
- Amulet by Roberto Bolaño (1)
- An Enemy of the People (5)
- Anne Enright on China and Censorship
- Another interview (8)
- Another Poem by Czeslaw Milosz (2)
- Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
- Arthur Miller's Broken Glass (1)
- Bad Product Awards (3)
- Baghdad's Book Market
- Bali - Climate Change (4)
- Banned Books in the UK (2)
- Being Average in Germany
- Bennett to Amis: Shame on Us (2)
- Beyond the UK Border (4)
- Bhagdad Burning (4)
- Bits of Hay
- Blog Rally (1)
- Bondage to Bondage - Democracy Bye-bye (5)
- Bringing Love to the World - American-Style
- Bullies, Muggers, Sneak Thieves, and Con Men (3)
- Burma, Writers and Censorship
- Bush Acting Strangely? - I Don't Believe It (2)
- Bush and Blair (3)
- Bush Humour (7)
- Bush Lied (6)
- Busted flat in Baton Rouge (4)
- Butterfly of Hope (2)
- By Night in Chile - review (1)
- Can the President Pardon Himself? (10)
- Cheaper than war
- China (2)
- China's High-Tech Police State (1)
- Christmas Eve (2)
- Christmas Morning (1)
- Clock without Hands by Carson McCullers (4)
- Cluster bombs (6)
- Coffee in Tehran
- Conservapedia (7)
- Copyright and Pirates (2)
- Creating a Text - Paul Sutherland
- Cycle Paths - cooled and shaded (1)
- Czeslaw Milosz and Solidarity (2)
- Dad is Baghdad
- Dancing Round Europe
- Dear Senator Edwards: (1)
- Desmond Tutu Banned from Minnesota University (3)
- Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson (4)
- Eduardo Galeano Interview (1)
- Egyptian blogger sentenced to four years (2)
- End In Sight In Corruption Murder (2)
- Evil? I Don't Think So. (2)
- Five Questions: Bhupinder Singh (4)
- Five Questions: Newley Purnell (1)
- Five Questions: pas au-dela (1)
- Five Years
- Five Years Ago
- Football is faster than words
- Forty Acres
- Free Hugs Campaign (3)
- General Pinochet (8)
- George Carlin - RIP
- Getting Him Ready To Go (3)
- Girl Blog from Iraq (1)
- Go figure . . . (3)
- god stuff (2)
- Google - the evil empire? (4)
- Gore Vidal and the bomb (2)
- Great Firewall of China (5)
- Guantanamo (5)
- Guantanamo: Stop this outrage (3)
- Hang 'em High (3)
- Harmful Books? (2)
- He's gone (4)
- Himmler - Speaking To His Own
- Homecoming - GI Zombies
- How To Sell Your Book (21)
- I Blog, therefore . . . (1)
- I Couldn't Bring Myself To Care About (1)
- I'm Dreaming of a White President
- Inexclusion (3)
- Interview with Charles Foran
- Interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
- Isabel Allende (2)
- It's all right to attack a politician's religion (6)
- It's Perfectly Normal (6)
- Jalaladdin Rumi (2)
- Jeanette Winterson (7)
- Journalists face imprisonment for article on jokes (2)
- June - a poem - a massacre - a torch (2)
- Ken Robinson on Changing Paradigms
- Kenya (3)
- Lady Godiva - No thank you
- Let's Clean Up Fashion (6)
- Living in Community, Writing Alone I (2)
- Living in Community, Writing Alone II (6)
- Loose Change (2)
- Louise Bryant (1)
- Macbett by Eugene Ionesco (1)
- Man of great moral courage (7)
- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán sometime minimalist cook (3)
- Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad
- Maverick Sabre - They Found Him A Gun (2)
- McJob (2)
- McJob (6)
- Meet the World
- Melt the Guns (3)
- Modernism II
- Modernism III
- Modernism IV (1)
- Modernism VII
- My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru (1)
- Myanmar (Burma) Today (3)
- New Shoes (7)
- No More Heroes (5)
- No thanks, your honour . . . (1)
- Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka (1)
- Not Eating with the Bushes (5)
- Obama Adds Faith to Hope and Change (14)
- Odds of Dying in a Terrorist Attack (36)
- Omid Djalili (2)
- Orhan Pamuk (4)
- Out-takes XXII (2)
- Out-takes XXIII (1)
- Outer Life; Inner Life (11)
- Paul Wolfowitz and Accountability (9)
- Persepolis (1)
- Phil Beer & Miranda Sykes
- Pie in the Sky (2)
- Pierrepoint - the last hangman (8)
- Pink - Dear Mr President (8)
- Plan B: ill Manors (1)
- Political Education: Joseph Stalin in Hull (1)
- Politics and the English Language (3)
- Politics, Real Life & the Crime Novel (2)
- Postcard of the Hanging (9)
- Postcards of the Hanging (4)
- Poverty - Oct 15th (1)
- Presque vu IX (1)
- Presque vu L (1)
- Presque vu LI
- Presque vu LIII
- Presque vu LIIX (2)
- Presque vu LIV
- Presque vu LIX
- Presque vu LV
- Presque vu LVI
- Presque vu LX (1)
- Presque vu LXI
- Presque vu LXII (1)
- Presque vu LXIV (2)
- Presque vu LXIX (1)
- Presque vu LXV
- Presque vu LXVI (1)
- Presque vu LXVII (2)
- Presque vu LXVIII (1)
- Presque vu LXX
- Presque vu LXXI
- Presque vu LXXII (3)
- Presque vu LXXIII (3)
- Presque vu LXXIV (2)
- Presque vu LXXIX (1)
- Presque vu LXXV
- Presque vu LXXVI
- Presque vu LXXVII
- Presque vu LXXVIII (1)
- Presque vu V (5)
- Presque vu VI (1)
- Presque vu VII (2)
- Presque vu VIII (1)
- Presque vu X (2)
- Presque vu XI (1)
- Presque vu XII (3)
- Presque vu XII
- Presque vu XIII (1)
- Presque vu XIII (1)
- Presque vu XIX
- Presque vu XVI (2)
- Presque vu XVIII
- Presque vu XX
- Presque vu XXI (4)
- Presque vu XXII
- Presque vu XXIX
- Presque vu XXVI
- Presque vu XXVII (1)
- Presque vu XXVIII
- Presque vu XXXI (2)
- Presque vu XXXII
- Presque vu XXXIX
- Presque vu XXXVI (1)
- Presque vu XXXVIII
- Presque vu XXXX (1)
- Presque vu XXXXI (3)
- Presque vu XXXXII
- Presque vu XXXXIII
- Presque vu XXXXVI
- Presque vu XXXXVIII (1)
- Press Freedom Index (4)
- Prigs (2)
- Protesters like Moths to a Flame (3)
- Public Lives/Private Lives (1)
- Rain All the Way at Hay (3)
- Re-reading JM Coetzee's Disgrace (10)
- Read for Peace
- Reigns of Terror
- Remembering Howard Zinn
- Salman Rushdie's Brush with Security (3)
- Scared to Death (3)
- Science and Reason (3)
- Secrecy
- Secret Lives of Cities
- Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
- Should They Be Allowed To Marry? (1)
- Some Restaurants and Cafés to Avoid (1)
- Sometimes You Just Have To Pee In The Sink (5)
- Starbucked (3)
- Stealing Books (2)
- Stop Me and Buy One
- Subversive Vanity Fair (1)
- Super-Cannes by JG Ballard (3)
- Take Jane (2)
- Tango Siempre with Gilad Atzmon
- Ten Awful Truths . . . (2)
- That Book Meme . . . (4)
- The Absolute Voice of Death (1)
- The Afghan Who Dared Read About Women's Rights (3)
- The American World (13)
- The Arts' Debate (1)
- The Beautification Engine (3)
- The Blossom Embraces the Bee (4)
- The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett - a review (3)
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle (5)
- The Clintons (4)
- The Deputy Prime Minister (3)
- The Devil's Bargain
- The Devil's Harvest (3)
- The Dixie Chicks (9)
- The EcoDepot (2)
- The First Brit (1)
- The First Pole
- The History Boys - a review (9)
- The House of Bernarda Alba
- The IGnobel prize (1)
- The Lives of others (Das Leben der Anderen) - a film review (6)
- The Master and Margarita (5)
- The Monster of Florence (11)
- The Monster of Florence II (1)
- The Mutt's Nuts (3)
- The Plot Against America (2)
- The Poems in Che's Green Notebook (14)
- The Police At The Door
- The post turtle (6)
- The Prison of National Vanity (1)
- The Retreat from Common Sense (4)
- The Road to Heaven (5)
- The Satanic Verses & Rushdie's Knighthood (1)
- The Shakespearean Scholar of Sarajevo
- The South by Colm Tóibín - a review (2)
- The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibin (3)
- The stuff of dreams - RSC at Newcastle (2)
- The Writers' Police (3)
- This Year's Speech
- Thursday Thoughts: 2
- Thursday Thoughts: 3 (3)
- To Siberia by Per Petterson - Book review (6)
- Today's nice story with Ribena (2)
- Tom's News (2)
- Top 10 Conservative Rock Songs (13)
- Treating Deportees (2)
- Tricksy Spirits and Odd Lads (4)
- UK Complicit in US Torture Programme? (1)
- Under Western Eyes - a novel (4)
- Undermining Freedom (1)
- Uniforms (3)
- US Elections - change is the key (5)
- Vonnegut to Willeford (3)
- War on Terror
- Warriors & Widows
- We Don't Want To Go To China (3)
- What's Left at Hay?
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - the text (4)
- Why ban poetry? (3)
- Willy Maley, Scottish Poet
- Winged with Death Virtual Tour - 9 (1)
- Women - An Owner's Manual (4)
- Women at Work (4)
- World's Problems Solved. Apply within. (5)
- Wrestling Mad - a bad play (4)
- Writers at the Brussells Tribunal
- Writing Shooting in the Dark (1)
- You've Got To Hand It To Them (4)
- Zimbabwe - Time to Act
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