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Thursday, January 26, 2006

Normblog 'Writers Choice': writers writing about books.

The 'writer's choice series' from 'normblog' features writers writing about books. Here is a list of the pieces that have appeared to date, with the links to them.

David Aaronovitch on some of the books in his life.

Andrew Anthony on The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst.

Sarah Baxter on An Empire of Wealth by John Steele Gordon



Pamela Bone on Saturday by Ian McEwan



Nick Cohen on Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman



Clive Davis on Spandau: The Secret Diaries by Albert Speer



Katie Fforde on Electricity by Victoria Glendinning



Anne Fine on Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew by Bernard Hare, and Stuart: a life backwards by Alexander Masters



Jonathan Freedland on In the Land of Israel by Amos Oz



Linda Grant on The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick



Ramachandra Guha on Football in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano



Gideon Haigh on Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann



Sophie Hannah on The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch



Susan Hill on Hotel Savoy by Joseph Roth



Christopher Hitchens on How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn



Doug Ireland on the work of Michel Onfray



Morag Joss on Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson



Anthony Julius on Human Society in Ethics and Politics by Bertrand Russell



John Lloyd on Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman



Val McDermid on books that have influenced her



Mark Mason on Rain Men by Marcus Berkmann



Alex Massie on Game Time: A Baseball Companion by Roger Angell



Sophie Masson on The Seven Crystal Balls / Prisoners of the Sun by Hergé



Linda Newbery on Nature Cure by Richard Mabey



Sally Prue on The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien



Philip Pullman on the novels of MacDonald Harris



Dina Rabinovitch on Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer and History by James S. Olson



George Szirtes on Soul by Andrey Platonov



Andrew Taylor on Armadale and No Name by Wilkie Collins



Jean Ure on Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman, and Mansfield Park by Jane Austen



Minette Walters on King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, and Dracula by Bram Stoker



Michael Walzer on The Company You Keep by Neil Gordon



Francis Wheen on Capital by Karl Marx



Camilla Wright on 'Justice At Night' by Martha Gellhorn

1 Comments:

Blogger Laban said...

Much to my amazement, when Caroline Moorehead's edited Martha Gellhorn's letters for publication it transpited that "Justice At Night" was a work of fiction.

"Eleanor Roosevelt, a college friend of Gellhorn's mother, admired the lynching article, and Martha explained, giddily and lamely, that she was "getting a little mixed-up around now and apparently I am a very realistic writer (or liar), because everyone assumed I'd been an eye-witness to a lynching whereas I just made it up.""

http://www.powells.com/review/2006_10_05.html

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