Henry Hitchings profile
02 Dec 04:40
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In the Independent on Sunday Suzi Feay talks to 'Lexical wizard Henry Hitchings on the crazy history of our language' in A way with words.
Winter issue of The Threepenny Review
02 Dec 04:40
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A very limited part of the Winter issue of The Threepenny Review is available online -- but it includes Javier Marias' Interpreters of Lives.
SA literary journals
02 Dec 04:40
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In the Mail and Guardian Percy Zvomuya finds Expanding literary horizons in South Africa, as: "Unlike in the West, where many works of fiction first see the light of day in literary journals, most of our local works appear in book form first. This may change with the launch in the past year of two literary journals, Wordsetc and Baobab."
NY indies
02 Dec 04:40
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In New York Boris Kachka and Brian Raftery find that: 'For customizing your reading, nothing beats the neighborhood shop', in The Curated Bookshelf.
Swedish Academy vacancy
02 Dec 04:40
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The eighteen-member Swedish Academy decides who gets the Nobel Prize in literature, so when a seat opens up, it's news: Sten Rudholm, the longest serving (and, narrowly, oldest) member, occupying chair number one (see his official page) has passed away at the age of ninety.
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