Nigeness
A hedonic resource
Thursday 18 April 2024
Chasing the Devil Out of Texas
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Today is the centenary of the birth, in Vinton, Louisiana, of Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown (who got his nickname from a teacher who s...
Wednesday 17 April 2024
Rowland Suddaby
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This image from the golden age of motoring – an age when oil companies commissioned quality artwork (and quality books, in the form of the ...
Monday 15 April 2024
Daffodils, and the Walter Scott Publishing Company
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The daffodils are largely faded or gone, but there's still time for Robert Herrick's beautiful lyric, 'To Daffodils' – Fai...
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Saturday 13 April 2024
Birthday
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It's Samuel Beckett's birthday today (born 1906). I would have thought I'd have marked the date quite often on the blog, but it...
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Friday 12 April 2024
In the Slave Market
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In the course of the book I'm reading for review, Sir Samuel Baker, the English explorer who named Lake Albert, makes an appearance – a...
Tuesday 9 April 2024
How Libraries Saved a Life
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When I saw the front page headline 'Libraries Saved My Life', I had to buy a copy of the Birmingham Mail . It's a great story –...
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Monday 8 April 2024
Review
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By public demand (hem hem), here is my latest contribution to that fine magazine Literary Review – a review of a book I greatly enjoyed rea...
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