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Any good literary biographies?
Recommend some good literary biographies, then tell us what you think is the best biography ever and your criteria for choosing so.
:: STARTED BY matthew.
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:27 16.10.06
David Gemmell, 1948 - 2006
The prolific and talented 'greatest living writer of heroic fantasy' died on the morning of Friday 28th July 2006 after failing to recover from a heart bypass operation two weeks previously. This thread is for anyone who, like me, has been moved by his writing in the past.
:: STARTED BY Jack The Bodiless
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:34 15.10.06
Chuck Rosenthal
U.S. writer with many out-of-print books (though some are being reprinted soon, good for you).
:: STARTED BY Tsuga
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:56 10.10.06
Martin Amis's House of Meetings
It's Martin in Moscow and Amis above the Arctic Circle. Anyone read this attempt at a contemporary Russian novel?
:: STARTED BY Janean Patience
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:31 10.10.06
Thrillers for the PhD crowd
From Eco to Tartt, Dan Brown and that awful Rule of Four thrown in... art history meets knife-wielding crazies!
:: STARTED BY wembley can change in 28 days
:: 35 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:20 06.10.06
Voltaire, "Candide"
Satire on war, death...well, everything bad, really.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:13 05.10.06
Fact and Fiction: Spot The Difference.
What are the key differences between Academic & Fictional writing?
:: STARTED BY StarWhisper
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:53 05.10.06
Peter Sotos
Awhile back, I mentioned Peter Sotos' name on a thread in the music forum and someone said that there should be a thread about his work in the book forum one day. Well, I finally got around to doing that thread now, for better or worse... So disgusting pervert or genuine writer? Or both?
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:: 44 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:56 04.10.06
Sam Selvon, "The Lonely Londoners"
"At Waterloo station, hopeful new arrivals from the West indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London."
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:12 29.09.06
Logue's Iliad
Discussion of Christopher Logue's decades-long work-in-progress Iliad translation
:: STARTED BY buttergun
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:50 27.09.06
Is there any good fantasy anywhere?
I'm running out of decent fantasy authors. Are there any more?
:: STARTED BY at the scarwash
:: 87 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:01 26.09.06
Ezra Pound's translation of "The Seafarer"
Bittre breostcares hath Ich.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:50 23.09.06
Kill Your Darlings
Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Colin Dexter, What makes some authors kill of their main characters?
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Has Left the Building
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:39 23.09.06
20th Century's Best Characters
Book Magazine's 100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900
:: STARTED BY casemaker
:: 61 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:22 21.09.06
The Dread Poet Millay
In which the poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay and perhaps sonnets generally are discussed. Come help breathe fresh life into a dusty corpse!
:: STARTED BY HCE
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:22 17.09.06
Hooray! Daniel Pinkwater's Neddiad is online for free!
Daniel Pinkwater is really keen, and now his prose is free. He's put it on the in-ter-net, and that fills me with glee.
:: STARTED BY MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:25 10.09.06
Jeff Vandermeer: Strange Fictions
Saints, Madmen, Squids, Mushrooms & Architecture
:: STARTED BY Mark Parsons
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:29 31.08.06
That big old page of numbers in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
help me pierce the postmodern veil of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
:: STARTED BY matsya
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:43 29.08.06
"Mutant and Cyborg Images of the Disabled Body in the Landscape of Science Fiction"
Seeking an essay, apparently written in 2004 by one Lydia Fecteau, of the above title.
:: STARTED BY Hydra vs Leviathan
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:20 20.08.06
Macabre Musings
Macabre, dark humour, is there anything else out there that parallels the liked of an Edward Gorey ?
:: STARTED BY 33
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:34 16.08.06
What are the most important books of all time (to you)?
Fiction, non-fiction, scientific tracts or religious texts, it doesn’t matter- anything and everything goes.
:: STARTED BY Matrixian
:: 41 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:43 16.08.06
LITTLE big by J. Crowley
Reading an "unknown" classic.
:: STARTED BY Henningjohnathan
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:01 16.08.06
Homofactus Press: Self-Organizing Men
Homofactus press is coming out with its first anthology, and I get a sneak peek, which I share with you (as part of an insidious marketing ploy— yay!) Keywords: grassroots press, self-publishing, gender, collaboration, anthology, marketing, FTM, promotion.
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:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:09 13.08.06
J K Rowling voted best living British writer by The Book magazine.
Best living British writer? Kill me, kill me now.
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 112 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:36 11.08.06
An Underworld Reading List
Tell me about hell
:: STARTED BY Sax
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:35 03.08.06
Who's this Rheinhardt cat?
Who is the Rheinhardt referred to in the forum summary, and what has ze written?
:: STARTED BY iconoplast
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:35 01.08.06
Benjamin Zephaniah
The fantastic poet and performer who refused an OBE, his work.
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:02 20.07.06
Direct Action and Invasion
Both to be educational and worthy of a read.
:: STARTED BY Dragon
:: 37 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:30 20.07.06
Your Local Library
Do you use it? What for? Is it any good? Library discussion here.
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 34 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:46 14.07.06
Doctor Who novelisations
Just what it says on the tin which is bigger on the inside than the outside.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:59 13.07.06
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