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[BillF]

On 18/06/2022 at 2:45 AM, Brad said:

 

If you should decide to watch Tinker, Tailor, do not watch the movie but the six part series with Alec Guinness.  

Agreed.

Now reading:

[ghost of miles]

Bill and other UK posters would find this one of interest, methinks. Rob Young has also written an excellent book about 1960s/70s English folk music (Electric Eden) as well as a biography of the group Can; I have yet to read the latter, but given the quality of his other work, I’m sure it would be a worthy read as well. The Magic Box explores the strange and fascinating realm of 1950s-80s British television:

Edited July 3, 2022 by ghost of miles

[BillF]

[jlhoots]

William Kent Krueger: This Tender Land

[Brad]

[Jason Bivins]

Shameless self-promotion, but my fourth book was published last week. I've returned to writing about religion and politics, and I'm pretty proud of this one.

 

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/embattled-america-9780197623503?cc=us&lang=en&

[sidewinder]

Just finished this really excellent book. Attended a gripping talk by the two authors a few weeks ago - very important that these events are recorded and passed on. Shocking how these crimes were ‘glossed over’ after WW2 but at least this character eventually got his comeuppance.

Almost certainly, he will have checked my train ticket back in the 70s/early 80s at London Bridge. A chilling thought.

Edited July 20, 2022 by sidewinder

[Michael]

Finished Joni Mitchell bio "Reckless Daughter" by David Jaffe.  Recommended.  Now reading "we Tell Ourselves Stoes In Order to Live."   Non-Fiction Collection of Joan Didion's writings. 

[jlhoots]

Adrian McKinty: The Island

[BillF]

[ghost of miles]

Got this as part of a recent University of Chicago Press sale—really looking forward to the diverse array of albums and artists he covers:

[jlhoots]

Morgan Talty: Night Of The Living Rez

[BillF]

[Bluesnik]

I have just finished today this

And it's as superb as everybody says it is. I'm a big Winslow follower, mind you. And if it's the beginning of a new trilogy. It's the Irish mob against the Italian one in New England. So an end with Mexico and back to the USA.

Edited August 9, 2022 by Bluesnik

[jlhoots]

18 minutes ago, Bluesnik said:

I have just finished today this

And it's as superb as everybody says it is. I'm a big Winslow follower, mind you. And if it's the beginning of a new trilogy.

[BillF]

[HutchFan]

Robert Penn Warren has been one of my favorite authors ever since I read All the King's Men in college. 

 

[mr jazz]

My uncle and Ted Hughes got into lots of mischief at Cambridge, so my parents knew him and Sylvia Plath quite well. RPW was a good friend of my grandfather and I remember meeting him several times as a child. I read the Winslow-good but not as good as the narco trilogy which is top tier, IMO.

[BillF]

13 hours ago, mr jazz said:

My uncle and Ted Hughes got into lots of mischief at Cambridge, so my parents knew him and Sylvia Plath quite well. RPW was a good friend of my grandfather and I remember meeting him several times as a child. I read the Winslow-good but not as good as the narco trilogy which is top tier, IMO.

I met Hughes briefly in 1984 at a course on teaching creative writing. He seemed very approachable.

Is your uncle mentioned in the Hughes biography?

Edited August 13, 2022 by BillF

[medjuck]

Just finished both "From Swing to Bop" by Gitler and "Tonight at Noon" by Sue Mingus.  I recommend both.  And I'd like to thank all those here who recommended the Gitler. It's terrific. 

[Rabshakeh]

18 minutes ago, medjuck said:

Just finished both "From Swing to Bop" by Gitler and "Tonight at Noon" by Sue Mingus.  I recommend both.  And I'd like to thank all those here who recommended the Gitler. It's terrific. 

I have it on my shelf waiting a reading. Looking forwards to it.

[jlhoots]

Andrey Kurkov: Death & The Penguin

[mjazzg]

11 hours ago, jlhoots said:

Andrey Kurkov: Death & The Penguin

the sequel's good too

[mr jazz]

21 hours ago, BillF said:

I met Hughes briefly in 1984 at a course on teaching creative writing. He seemed very approachable.

Is your uncle mentioned in the Hughes biography?

Believe so-Lucas Myers

[BillF]

1 hour ago, mr jazz said:

Believe so-Lucas Myers

Yes, loads of references, including a page on the Cambridge antics! You'll have to read it.