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John Baker's Blog

http://johnbakersblog.co.uk

Blog of UK based novelist with posts on the creative process, writing tips, publishing and the art of fiction. Book, film and music reviews, quotations and cultural and political comment.

• Added on: Oct 29th, 2007
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English

• Author: John Baker
• Listed in: Writing Art & Artists
• Tags: politics Culture fiction writing novel criticism

Recent Posts

• Presque vu LXIX

  Posted on Friday October 10th, 2008 at 04:41 in cuba, fiction, Film, lies, literature, miami five, newman, nobel laureate, politics, Quotations, review, screen

  On Vulpes Libris, Jay Benedict reviews Banquet of Lies by Amin Zaoui: The first thing I should warn you about is that this book is not for the politically correct or the faint-hearted or those with Anglo-Saxon attitudes. It breaks down pretty much e...

• Jazz at the Opera House, Oslo

  Posted on Wednesday October 8th, 2008 at 04:10 in art, davis, hendricksen, jazz, miscellaneous, music, opera house, oslo, sketches of spain

  The opening concert of the Oslo Jazz Festival took place at the new Opera House on the 11th August. The Norwegian Wind Ensemble, conducted by Maria Schneider, played Porgy & Bess, followed by Sketches of Spain, to a capacity audience. Solo trumpe...

• Out Stealing Timber II

  Posted on Monday October 6th, 2008 at 05:09 in narrative, norway, novel, out stealing timber, writing

  I want to say a little more about that short phrase, which at this stage is all we know from the blonde woman’s lips. ‘We share only a bairn, a dog and a car.’ It strikes me as a brave thing to say because it reveals certain vulnera...

• Pumpkin Positive in the Departure Lounge

  Posted on Friday October 3rd, 2008 at 11:07 in abbreviations, doctors, medicine, miscellaneous, Quotations, words

  The BBC reports on the work of Dr Adam Fox, who has compiled a list of the abbreviations doctors use in their notes. These are used, allegedly, to pinpoint the unspeakable truths about their patients: The increasing rate of litigation means that ther...

• Allen Lane - the founder of Penguin Books

  Posted on Wednesday October 1st, 2008 at 04:14 in joyce, lane, lawrence, literature, penguin, publishing, Quotations

  Three Monkeys Online has a piece from Horatio Morpurgo, about the editorial style and personal life of his gandfather, Allen Lane. As well as founding Penguin Books, Lane was responsible for the first English publication of James Joyce’s Ulysse...

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