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Who’s running the Antigonish Review anyway? "I know what I like" criticism from rob mclennan in the Antigonish Review on Carmine Starnino’s "Cornage": "What I find most interesting (no explanation of why) about CREDO, and conversely, most disappointing (no explanation of why, other than "I would have expected better‘), is the fourth section, Submitted: on 5th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · What · Criticism · Review · WhatVirginia Woolf’s Beauty As rendered by Edith Sitwell: "Virginia Woolf had a moonlit transparent beauty. She was exquisitely carved, with large thoughtful eyes that held no foreshadowing of that tragic end which was a grief to everyone who had ever known her." And by Rosamond Lehmann: "She was extremely beautiful, with an austere intellectual beauty of bone and outline, with Submitted: on 7th Jan 2010 Tags: · Rosamond Lehmann · Virginia WoolfThe Writer's Holiday, by Seanan McGuire (View entire post here) I think most of us are familiar with the phrase "busman's holiday": a holiday or vacation during which you do what you do for the rest of the year (so the busman has to drive the family to their destination, the lion tamer has to take the kids to the movies, the chef has to cook the holiday goose). It's usually used to imply that the holiday wasn'... Submitted: on 16th Dec 2009 Tags: · holiday · The · What · Family · Lion · Movies · Seanan McGuire · The WriterRape, Revenge, Genitals and Diseases… From here. Susan Mansfield in Scotland on Sunday on poet Robin Robertson: Robertson's poetry is dark, strange, shot through with moments of illumination and savage clarity: a beheaded goat, its tongue and eyes still moving; a dying cat "leaking thinly/ into a grim towel". Kazuo Ishiguro has described his poems as "darkly chiselled… haunted by mortality Submitted: on 24th Feb 2010 Tags: · Cat · Dark · Kazuo Ishiguro · Poems · Poet · Poetry · SusanViva Lost Vegas: Part Two. "I like elevators, which give you the feeling of going somewhere without any of the anxiety associated with travel." Matthew Specktor's installment of the holiday tag-team story is up at FiveChapters today. Submitted: on 16th Dec 2009 Tags: · holiday · The · Up · Story · TravelThe best travel books of 2009 Rory MacLean lists his top travel books for Christmas gifts. Be transported to the world's hottest destinations or its frozen outposts - all from the comfort of your armchair "Does travel writing have a future?" William Dalrymple asked in the autumn, with his tongue dancing against his cheek. The best travel books of 2009 – including his own Nine Lives – prove that the genre is al... Submitted: on 16th Dec 2009 Tags: · Christmas · Gifts · The · Gifts · Lives · The Best Travel Books · Travel · Travel Writing · WilliamTravel Writing in Real Time: The Evolution of the Travel Memoir In an age of Twitter and Google Maps, the art of travel writing is changing. We caught up with one travel writer to find out how the field is evolving. Today's guest on the Morning Media Menu was Andrew Evans, a writer and National Geographic blogger currently traveling between Washington D.C. and Antarctica. By bus. You can read about his blogged adventures at National Geographic. Press play... Submitted: on 11th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · Up · Art · Caught · Memoir · National Geographic · Press · Travel · Travel Memoir · Travel Writer · Travel Writinglinks for 2010-01-30 Overhyped, Overpriced & Disappointing: iPad? No, iPod in 2001 "I still can't believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! … I want something new! I want them to think differently! Why oh why would they do this?! It's so wrong! It's so stupid!" Submitted: on 30th Jan 2010 Tags: · Believe · OhA BookHunters Holiday - Book Review The Book Hunters Holiday by A S W Rosenbach The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1936 Upon thinking of the success of Chris at Book Hunters Holiday (with her Dante Catalogue), I am reminded that I have not yet read and reviewed the book I purchased after which Chris named her business. I purchased this book, Bookhunters Holiday, back in late 2007. I mentioned this purchase again on the da... Submitted: on 12th Feb 2010 Tags: · holiday · The · Book Review · business · Press · TheRory MacLean's travel book of the year: William Dalrymple's Nine Lives William Dalrymple's triumphant return to travel writing not only illuminates India's relationship with religion but casts the genre itself in a new light Nine Lives is William Dalrymple's first travel book in a decade. Its publication has led him to speculate, first in Prospect and then in the Guardian, about the health of the genre. "Does travel writing have a future?" he asks, wit... Submitted: on 16th Dec 2009 Tags: · The · Book Of The Year · Health · India · Light · Lives · Publication · The Guardian · Travel · Travel Book · Travel Writing · William
