Linkspam to Candleford
Dept of, yet another call-out to Joanna Russ and How to Suppress Women's Writing: it suited everyone to think of Thompson not as a journeyman writer but rather as a hedge-scribe, an empty vessel through which the rural England of the 1880s had channelled its dying song.
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Dept of, getting it Rong Way Round: This was a Rosetta Stone before the key had been found. No, the point about the Rosetta Stone was that it provided a key...
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Dept of, sounds interesting: This story of a Nigerian expat's life in the English capital takes a refreshing look at themes of family, race, literature and music
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Dept of, looking forward to reading this: Diana Wynne Jones's final book - completed by her sister - is a delightful and assured quest adventure (I knew this was in the pipeline).
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Dept of, it feels like there might be a whole other book there: you would think that women flocked to [Hemingway] because he was brilliant in bed. In fact he had lengthy periods of impotence and was often too insecure to be generous.
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Dept of, possibly this is a bit showing off his knowingz about Noel?
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Dept of, a novel Ruth Prawer Jhabavala didn't write: her mother had died in mysterious circumstances in India.
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Dept of, not really surprised: "Private in vitro fertilisation is charged not on what it actually costs to deliver the treatment, but what it is thought the market will bear," he says.
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Dept of, no, I can't really drum up any sympathy for this plight: why taxpayers should not fall for the promises of promoters selling schemes that are all too often too good to be true. Not only will the taxpayer waste money on the fees for these failed schemes, they will still have to pay all the tax, interest and penalties that are due. (Sound over here like gurgling drains.)
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Dept of, knock me down with a feather: Martin Amis credits stepmother and Jane Austen for literary success (famous father was 'mixed blessing').
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Dept of, depends what you mean by 'real': is sex in cinema getting too real? if 'real' means grim and not fun and that your movie will get five stars and accolades from Peter Bradshaw, maybe.
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Dept of, no idea where Ian Jack has been dining: Dining out in Britain has become a febrile, noisy, expensive ordeal. O rly.
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Dept of, don't we just love lady primatologists? In Lemur Behaviour (1966), she was the first to establish clearly from meticulously reported field observations the odd fact that among the lemurs she studied, females typically had priority over males, upending the longstanding assumption that male primates are always bigger, fiercer and dominant. Hail and farewell, Alison Jolly.
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