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Category Archives: Literature
Books that I fecking enjoyed – #4
Anthony Burgess - Earthly Powers Decided to run with a content-soft post to see out 2010. Fuck it, I’m more Quality Street (strawberry or the long caramel ones) than writer at this stage anyway. The only reason I didn’t review this … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Literature, Music, Reviews
Tagged 1980, 20th Century, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Fiction, Review, Yuck
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Books that I fecking enjoyed – #3
Ernest Hemingway – To Have and Have Not Ernest Hemingway. To many, the mention of this colossus of the 20th century American literary canon can be summed up in a few sepia tinged shots of his favoured subjects; a bloodied … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Music, Reviews
Tagged Get Yer Ya Yas Out, Hemingway, Mercury Prize, The Sabres of Paradise, To Have and Have Not, Wild Nothing
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Books that I fecking enjoyed – #2
Recently enough, I was sitting in Galway’s Eyre Square, in what I thought was a sufficiently anti-social manner (in order to discourage swine from bothering me for trifles such as cigarettes and money for Buckfast), eating a chocolate brownie and perusing the opening pages … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Literature, Music, Politics, Reviews, Society
Tagged 1968, Four Tet, new Arcade Fire, Norman Mailer, pigasus, Tucan
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Books that I Fecking Enjoyed – #1
This Way For the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen – Tadeusz Borowski In 1997, leader of the British National Party Nick Griffin was the subject for an episode of The Cook Report, an ITV current affairs and investigative journalism programme. While being … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Reviews, Society
Tagged Books that I fecking enjoyed, Holocaust, Tadeusz Borowski
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