Notes on reading
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Wessex, Mercia, and the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
In a speech given in 2002, Michael Crichton, of Jurassic Park fame, coined the term, ‘Gell-Mann Amnesia effect’. Continue reading
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Forgotten writers are a thing of the past
I recently caught up with a 2017 article by the critic BD McClay, ‘Enough with the “forgotten” writers’, in which she expresses her impatience with the regular flow of literary essays in which ‘forgotten’ writers are praised. Continue reading
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La Goulue: rags to riches to rags
Of the books I’ve read to glean some historical background for my Calypso Bergere Mysteries series, my favourite is Janet Flanner’s Paris Was Yesterday, 1925–1939. Continue reading
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Ears and eyes: listening isn’t reading
Not long ago, David Baddiel, the actor and comedian, told his Twitter followers he was ‘rereading’ Middlemarch. In a series of tweets on the experience, he claimed that George Eliot’s novel was better than anything by Tolstoy, Flaubert, and Proust. Continue reading
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