In the middle of a dark linkspam
Dept of Pedantry and Whimsy: I wonder how many comments there will be mentioning that this snippet misses a much earlier association between Dante and crime literature, i.e. Dorothy Sayers' translation of The Divine Comedy.
And on the subject of Queens of Crime, with particular reference to Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine and films of her work, is it, in fact, true that “In France, we do not really have female crime writers. It seems typically English to us. We’re fascinated with a woman who looks very bourgeois but is able to write terrible, dramatic crime stories.”
(Realise that my knowledge of Fr crime fiction is more or less nil, the only name I can even think of was - wasn't he? - Belgian anyway.)
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Dept of o the poncey poncey higher codswallop:
Will Self on The IntaWebz (sample quote: ' the inception of wireless broadband, the technological change that freeze-dried cyberspace into full, gelid existence'.)
The Ginger line: Iain Sinclair on the London Overground: I found myself eavesdropping on the climactic moan of the Overground. If the traffic ditch of Kingsland Road played like a gurgle of peristaltic juices recovering from a monster kebab, the Overground was a 14-hour sigh of mounting, but never-quite-satisfied sexual bliss.
Paging Mr Mybug, right?
Owen Sheers: an interview with contemporary literature’s renaissance man: Before this, if you’d asked me which two books I’d never write, I’d have said, a book set in Hampstead and a novel about novel writing, which this turned out to be. Both tend to drive me mad. But having lived in temporary places in Hampstead surrounded by that sense of establishment, there was a tension that I found I wanted to explore. And I did end up thinking, what’s the point in writing in a form if you’re not going to interrogate it?
Enquiring minds wish to ascertain, but does anyone commit adultery in it?
With a retrospective flip of a codfish to Jonathan Jones (the boy has form, do admit), for apparently making the remark that Barbara Hepworth is '“easy to get bored by” and “second rate”. Breathes there an art critic with soul so dead, etc.
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Dept of, I think you are answering the wrong question, and possibly asking it too: Ask Molly Ringwald: how can I stop being lazy and get motivated? I'd like to interrogate first, or at least suggest investigation, into any health reasons (besides the stated exhaustion from long hours) that might be behind this, rather than just going 'exercise!'
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