TOP 100 BOOK SITES
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| Anarchists assemble at Saskatoon book fair Anarchists in Saskatoon are being urged to unite, and read. cbc.ca |
Roy Greenslade: Ex-Daily Mirror reporter writes a book on Marmite I am delighted to see that Maggie Hall, a former Daily Mirror reporter from the 1970s and 80s, has written a book explaining the phenomenon of a beloved British condiment, The Mish-Mash Dictionary of Marmite: An Anecdotal A-Z of 'Tar-in-a-Jar.'. She also has a blog dedicated to Marmite. It's a tough sell in the US - where Maggie has lived for 30 years. One of the journalists who attended the book's launch in Washington, Post columnist John Kelly (and a friend of Maggie's), described it as "an English condiment that is perhaps the foulest compound legally sold for human consumption."He wrote: "I took a bite and immediately felt as if I'd been hit in the face by an ocean wave, a wave befouled by oil from a sinking tanker, oil that had caused a die-off of marine birds and invertebrates, creatures whose decomposing bodies were adding to the general funkiness of the wave that had found its way inside my mouth."Sources: Washington Post/Revel BarkerDaily MirrorUnited StatesRoy Greensladeguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds feeds.guardian.co.uk |
The Masculine Mystique Three stories of desire feature several lusty adolescent boys, an aged but eager rancher and Jim Harrison’s best-known character, Brown Dog. feeds.nytimes.com |
Crystalline Affliction This fantastically imagined first novel about a woman whose feet are turning to glass blends fairy tale, myth and psychological realism. feeds.nytimes.com |
English Bards | Lord Byron by Lord ByronOh! Southey! Southey! cease thy varied song!A Bard may chaunt too often and too long:As thou art strong in verse, in mercy spare!A fourth, alas! were more than we could bear,But if, in spite of all the world can say,Thou still wilt verseward plod thy weary way;If still in Berkeley Ballads most uncivil,Thou wilt devote old women to the devil,The babe unborn thy dread intent may rue:'God help thee,' Southey, and thy readers too.Next comes the dull disciple of thy school,That mild apostate from poetic rule,The simple Wordsworth, framer of a layAs soft as evening in his favourite May,Who warns his friend 'to shake off toil and trouble,And quit his books, for fear of growing double';Who, both by precept and example, showsThat prose is verse, and verse is merely prose;Convincing all, by demonstration plain,Poetic souls delight in prose insane;And Christmas stories tortured into rhymeContain the essence of the true sublime.…Shall gentle Coleridge pass unnoticed here,To turgid odes and tumid stanza dear?Though themes of innocence may amuse him best,Yet still obscurity's a welcome guest.If Inspiration should her aid refuseTo him who takes a Pixy for a Muse,Yet none in lofty numbers can surpassThe bard who soars to elegise an ass.Lord ByronPoetryguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds feeds.guardian.co.uk |