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10/08/2013

Holiday Post 2013 #1: Literature Appreciation Post #3

Last year I did a list of books I was going to read on holiday, and I thought I’d do another. Incidentally, I published the To Kill a Mockingbird fan fiction just last week (this has been a great year for getting stuff done, huh). So, this year I’m reading: We Need to Talk About Continue reading

August 2013, Books, Holidays, Lists, Newspapers

‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, ‘Private Eye’, ‘The Age of Innocence’, ‘The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over the World’, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, ‘We Need to Talk about Kevin’, books, Edith Wharton, Holidays, Indifferent Ignorance, Lionel Shriver, literature, Tom Feling
11/02/2013

Hughes Verses Plath: Fifty Years On

If I’m being honest, the title of this post sets it up to be far more intellectual and well-informed than it actually is. You’re reading said post, however, so my marketing ploy has worked and now all I need to do is actually discuss Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, fifty years on from Plath’s death. Continue reading

Complaints, DISCUSS., February 2013, Pure Insanity

‘Birthday Letters’, death, feminism, Indifferent Ignorance, invasions of privacy, literature, poets, public scrutiny, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Thomas Hardy