Envy

2nd February 2008 with 0 Comments

Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian Online discusses George Steiner’s My Unwritten Books, and along the way turns up this extraordinary confession:
It really is a brilliant article: angry, personal, affecting, terrifically written. It deserves to be anthologised. I actually dug it out today from a pile of old magazines. It is in the Summer 1991 [...]

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Presque vu X

28th October 2006 with 3 Comments

If you haven’t seen Marion Ettlinger’s Gallery, which consists of photographic portraits of writers, then now’s your chance. The gallery opens with a study of Truman Capote taken in 1982.
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Over at Chekhov’s Mistress, another review of the Sony Reader:
At the fashionable yet oddly cold Sony store on Madison Avenue I checked out the much ballyhooed [...]

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