Monday, December 24, 2007


from the Wonderful; Tea, Sympathy, and Perfume blog


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Tolstoy and Dickens. Who'd win in a fight?

By Shirley Dent on Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - books

Shirley Dent: War and Peace and
Our Mutual Friend are literary
heavyweights in more ways than one.
This one's going to go a few rounds



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3:15:55 PM    


'Oh, Bring Back the Days of the Simple Autograph'

By Dwight Garner on Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry (Steve Forrest for The New York Times) The actor/novelist/comic/poetry tutor Stephen Fry has a (crazily good) blog now, and he has posted about how the cell-phone camera has ruined the literary reading. Here's a bit of that, but, really, go scan and bookmark his whole site: When I wrote my first couple of books [...]



12:21:15 PM    


That Savage Feeling

By Dwight Garner on Michael Savage

In yesterday's New York Times, Jacques Steinberg had an interesting story about the right-wing radio host Michael Savage, who's recently been the target of a boycott by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Savage's response has been to sue the council for making audio of his dainty comments ("take your religion and shove it up your behind, etc.") [...]


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