A Blogversary and a Giveaway!
No 545 Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
First published in 1968, Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a collection of essays, largely about California and published mainly within the pages of The Saturday Evening Post across the previous decade. Fifty years on, what is most striking about the collection is the writing, which is vivid and alive. The style of New Journalism…
No 546 The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals by Elizabeth Smart
I first discovered Elizabeth Smart at the age of 17 when I read her classic novel By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept a fictionalised account of her affair with the poet George Barker. At that age I was completely taken with the relationship between Smart and Barker. When Smart, a Canadian poet,…
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Shortlist Announced for the Irish Book Awards!
No 547 Animals by Keith Ridgway
A few year ago I read, and loved, Hawthorn & Child by Keith Ridgway. A surreal esoteric detective novel, its weirdness was wonderful so I was highly anticipating this earlier novel, Animals. Ostensibly, Animals charts the mental and physical breakdown of an unnamed narrator, as he wanders around his city and becomes terrifyingly aware of…
Northern Exposure: Travelling in a Strange Land by David Park
