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An excellent meme, via Purple Pen … Which authors have you read more than ten books by? Mine are (or those I can remember thus far, roughly in the order in which I read them) … Enid Blyton Arthur Ransome Elyne Mitchell (particularly her brumby books. (Brumbies are wild horses.) …

I am stunned and deeply saddened, but no one should be shocked that Hunter S. Thompson took his own life Sunday night with a gunshot at his Woody Creek, Colorado home. What do you think “gonzo” means? It means fueled by adrenaline, drugs, riding an idea out until it dead-ends …

The Man Booker International Prize will be awarded once every two years for career achievement to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English, or is generally available in translation in the English language. 2005 sees the awarding of the inaugural prize. The prize, sponsored by the …

Michael Grandage’s production of Don Carlos in London entirely justifies the “stunning” blurb. It is an 18th-century play by Friedrich Schiller, of whom I must confess I had not previously heard. The play is stunning – the plots, the twists, the betrayals, the sheer drama is up there with Macbeth, …

Stand aside, Bridget Jones. Look lively, Carrie Bradshaw. And look out, Adrian Mole: if you see this woman, run. A sharp-witted British social satire fresh from the New York Times bestseller list, Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber hits the idiot box on March 12 courtesy of Oxygen Media. The …

A valiant first effort at fiction writing by technical author Clint Smith, but it falls short of its promise.

It was 1658. Agnes Bowker, 27, a spinster and domestic servant found herself with a difficult, but hardly unusual problem ...

An American photographer and a Japanese poet met in a New York City café.

Two books about the horrible things done to girls, most often by other girls. One is the application of the label “school slut”. Now I think about it, every school, college and similar collection of adolescents or young adults with which I have been involved had a school slut, or, …

Ken Akamatsu's latest boy-in-girlville manga comedy. . .