“Biography is a thoroughly reprehensible genre”
Only a few days after I made a rather grumpy comment on the quality of the Spectator now, comes this piece by Roger Lewis on the dodginess of biography. Lewis…
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Alexander Masters, Dido Davies and William Gerhardie
Having just blogged about Cornelius Medvei, and his friendship with the writer Alexander Masters, I came across a connection between Masters and a recurrent subject of this blog – the…
Cornelius Medvei: “We don’t take characters and develop them; we set ourselves writing puzzles and try to solve them”
The Making of Mr Bolsover is a novel which it is relatively easy to find critical words phrases to describe – mock-heroic, deadpan, quietly subversive – yet each leaves one…
Séamus Sweeney 