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Blog entries on '07 October 2005'
Friday 07 October 2005
Midaircondo
So, what is my new favourite record? Midaircondo's lovely Serenade (Type), that's what!
Posted by Mark Thwaite
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Friday 07 October 2005
Spinning Fear
Jodi says:
You can't, we can't, live in fear. That's not a life. When they make us think that it is, they've won. When they make us think that military is the best answer, that quarantines are ways of life, that we should be ever vigiliant, then our lives are not our own. We're simply food, fodder, part of the anxiety machine that generates wealth and privilege.
Posted by Mark Thwaite
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Friday 07 October 2005
Great Works
Andy, of Moleskine Modality, brings my attention to Great Works.
Great Works is a site for innovative writing: modernist, postmodernist, archaic. It proclaims the need to let a thousand flowers bloom, and rejects any single definition of what writing is. It welcomes alternative poetries and other writing.
Tin House magazine looks pretty decent too.
Posted by Mark Thwaite
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Friday 07 October 2005
Oliver Ready wins Rossica Prize
Oliver Ready has won the first Rossica Prize, to be awarded every two years, worth £2,000 (of which £500 goes to the publisher), for his translation of The Prussian Bride (Dedalus) by Yuri Buida, a collection of short stories based in the author's home region of Kaliningrad (via Languor Management).
Posted by Mark Thwaite
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Friday 07 October 2005
Cheltenham Literature Festival
Cheltenham Literature Festival starts today and runs until 16th October. Alan Bennett, Brett Easton Ellis, Maggie Gee, AC Grayling, Alan Hollinghurst, Andrea Levy and Adam Phillips all seem to be attending. I am not.
Posted by Mark Thwaite
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Friday 07 October 2005
Final chapter for the TLS?
John Sutherland, writing in the Guardian says the TLS, "may not, one fears, be around much longer", because of the recent sale of its stablemates the TES and the THES to the private equity group Exponent for £235m. Personally, I'd be gutted if it went. As Sutherland notes, the LRB, its only real rival, is, in fact, a quite different beast and the two complement one another. The supplements in the weekend papers are no substitute - especially as the Guardian's Review seems to have been relegated to a mere section of the newspaper, instead of a stand-alone magazine, since the paper's recent redesign.
Posted by Mark Thwaite
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Serendipoetry
To a Stranger
Passing stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me
as of a dream,)
I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you,
All is recall'd as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate,
chaste, matured,
You grew up with me, were a boy with me or a girl with me,
I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours
only nor left my body mine only,
You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you
take of my beard, breast, hands, in return,
I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or
wake at night alone,
I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
-- Walt Whitman
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