I’m not even sure what compelled me to purchase Pith and Amber. Perhaps I was entranced by the idea of the beautiful cover? I wanted to read some books from Fugue State Press who publish beautiful works of experimental fiction, and for some reason I purchased this book. The first thing that strikes me when […]
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Pith and Amber – the watery words of Carah A. Naseem (Book review)
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Reminder – Submissions for Henry Magazine are now open.
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“HENRY” is a new bi-yearly magazine in Le Zaporogue’sfree press collection. It is a magazine about literature, arts, music, philosophy and those who make it by those who make it, in other words, writers, artists, musicians and philosophers. It will be a heartfelt magazine about passion and creation, far from the traditional academic literary mags. It’s […]
Lawless: Nick Cave and American violence.
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I wrote an article at the start of this blog entitled: Why I love Miller and hate Hemingway, or how I pick and choose my misogynists, and I confess it’s in the spirit of what I talked about there that I have to enter this review of Lawless. I’m not 100% sure why I love […]
Pierrot le Fou – Godard and the ecstasy of words.
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One of the lines in Pierrot le Fou (Pierre the fool or Crazy Pete) is a quote or at least an echo from Rimbaud, Une Saison en enfer – A season in hell. This is one of many art references in this film, but possibly sums up this intense period of film making for Godard. […]
Savage in Limbo – John Patrick Shanley and Workhorse Theatre company ask should I stay or should I go?
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In the world of Plato’s cave, truth is an elusive and frightening thing. Because it finds us, we are in a perpetual dance with it – a dance of desire, awareness, shock and avoidance. This pattern plays itself out within us unless we decide to embrace our own truth and risk the accompanying fear and move forward […]
Mo Yan Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
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For those of you who think you can bet on this competition, I say give up now and promise me you will never try again. Mo Yan of China has won the 20102 Nobel Prize for Literature. Mo Yan Born: 1955, Gaomi, China Residence at the time of the award: China Prize motivation: “who with hallucinatory realism merges […]
Introduction to a Magazine called “Henry” – and a call for Submissions.
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“HENRY” is a new bi-yearly magazine in Le Zaporogue’s free press collection. It is a magazine about literature, arts, music, philosophy and those who make it by those who make it, in other words, writers, artists, musicians and philosophers. It will be a heartfelt magazine about passion and creation, far from the traditional academic literary […]
Announcing changes to the Lisa Thatcher Blog
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Good morning my lovely readers. This is a post to let you know there will be some changes to the blog from today forward. I want to thank everyone for your encouraging readership. In terms of daily hit statistics and people signing up, the blog has been a great success in my little world. Many […]
The Booker Prize Long List
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Well – it’s that time again. Reading up on the long list to make our choices about who should and who shouldnt hit the short list for the Man Booker Prize. The longlisted books were selected from a total of 145 titles, 11 of which were called in by the judges. The 2012 longlist includes […]
Books that make you undatable
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The H Post ran an article today called “9 Books that make you undatable” that set my mind to wondering. Is there a book that, if seen on a potential lovers night stand, would have me running for the hills? I mean books are very important to me. Are they are worthy barometer for those I want […]
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