Word meanings: baby

Dr Nottle’s Cheese Diet

Gert Loveday, who, as most of you know by now, is a seamless blend of two people, has a great interest in self-improvement.

Mother again: Per Petterson’s ‘ I Curse The River of Time’ and ‘In The Wake’.

We’ve written in these posts before about our favourite genre “My horrible father.” Now we seem to be on a bit of a roll with horrible, or at least, difficult mothers. Last time it was P.O. Enquist and his God-fearing mama; this time it’s Per Petterson and his unattainable mother.

In praise of pessimism

Sadly – but to pessimists, predictably – pessimism gets a bad press.

Frauds (freuds) 4 : Arthur Cravan, tangoing till dawn

“The blood is the life!” Coming soon to a pharmacy near you….

And you won’t even have to spend your days lying in a coffin.

Anthony Doerr: All the light we cannot see

Of handsome men and teeth

Gert has an instinctive dislike of handsome men.

Who’s cross with who in the world of books: Ryan, Fay and Kazuo

Lots of people are cross with Ryan Boudinet for the frank opinions expressed in his recent essay Things I can say about MFA writing programs now that I no longer teach in one:

Hurray for Ivan Vladislavić

Hurray hurray for Ivan  Vladislavić , who has just won the 2015 Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction, an unrestricted grant of $150,000 to allow a writer time to work free of financial concerns.

http://www.randomreads.co.za/blogs/ivan-vladislavic-wins-the-international-windham-campbell-prize/353