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Monthly Archives: March 2013
The most boring thing in the world
Someone I follow on Twitter recently posted a photograph of this: The evidence certainly seems to agree with Timberlake. You can’t go anywhere without something ‘entertaining’ your senses. Browse in any shop and there’s music being played, walk through a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Teaching
Tagged 'Ambulances'', education, Larkin, reading, silence, teaching, thinking
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Happy Birthday Philip Roth!
Another Philip said that Sidney Bechet’s voice falls on him ‘Like an enormous yes.’ The same is true for me when I read Philip Roth. Six years after the retirement of Nathan Zuckerman, his alter ego narrator, in ‘Exit Ghost’, … Continue reading
‘Death and the Penguin’ by Andrey Kurkov
Not that long after The Wall fell I had the opportunity to travel to Siberia. It was summer, the weather was fine, the people friendly and intelligent. Omsk, where I spent a few nights, was different. My memory is of … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction
Tagged 'Death and the Penguin', Andrey Kurkov, fiction, literature, novel, review
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Learning to read
If Steinbeck was alive today he’d be 111 years old. That’s about how old I feel after every time I read ‘Of Mice and Men’. Don’t get me wrong, I like it. Or I should say, I liked it. For … Continue reading