I’m in the midst of writing a review of Memory At Bay, a novel by Evelyne Trouillot translated by Paul Curtis Daw. As I was writing an idea became stuck in my head – relevant to the book and the review, but too large and unformed at this stage to actually use. The only way I can think of to move past it and get back to … Continue reading A Case for Diaspora Writing as a Literary Movement
2 The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien, translated by Linda Coverdale and published by Penguin Books, features Simenon’s Inspector Maigret. A Parisian detective who starred in an impressive seventy-five novels & twenty-eight short stories. Of the three Simenon books I’m reviewing The Hanged Man… is the most conventional – being a fairly straight forward detective novel. In it the off-duty Inspector Maigret spots a suspicious looking man at the train station … Continue reading The Genius of Georges Simenon – continued
Title: The Strangers In the House Translator: Geoffrey Sainsbury, with revisions by David Watson & others Publisher: New York Review Books, New York ISBN: 978 1 59017 194 3 Title: The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien Translator: Linda Coverdale Publisher: Penguin Books, London ISBN: 978 0 141 39345 2 Title: The President Translator: Daphne Woodward Publisher: Melville House Publishing, Brooklyn ISBN: 978 1 935554 … Continue reading The Genius of Georges Simenon – Part 1
If there’s one thing you walk away with after reading Antonia Fraser’s memoir Must You Go, My Life with Harold Pinter, it’s that she and her second husband Harold Pinter were deeply in love. Reading a memoir that doesn’t focus exclusively on tribulations its author has overcome is refreshing. Remarkable, even. Fraser has chosen to share what appears to be the happiest period of her … Continue reading Must You Go, My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser (audiobook)
The series 100 Pages was started to highlight those books I’ve put aside after 100 pages – not due to any fault of the author or the quality of the writing, but because ultimately they were not to my taste. 100 Pages is a way to recommend deserving books that I know BookSexy Review readers will be interested in, even when I am not. One … Continue reading 100 Pages: One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina
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