Writing about Cooking With Fernet Branca and coming across a book called Highballs For Breakfast : The very best of P. G. Wodehouse on the joys of a good stiff drink (Richard D. Kelly, ed.) made Gert think about memorable drink scenes. Continue reading The demon drink
Tag Archives: Writing is Easy
His Futile Preoccupations
Guy Savage on his blog His Futile Preoccupations has given Writing is Easy a wonderful review. You can read it here
Some other reviews are at
https://www.librarything.com/work/14521205/reviews/104198531
‘Writing is Easy’ on Goodkindles
A blurb for Writing is Easy has appeared on Goodkindles (www.goodkindles.net)
Gert’s writing room, Knausgaard and Finnegans Wake in Mandarin
A description of Gert’s writing room appears on The Next Best Book Blog http://thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.com.au/
Our mate Karl Ove Knausgaard heads the shortlist for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/08/karl-ove-knausgaard-short-stories-on-independent-foreign-fiction-prize-shortlist
And the first print-run (8000 copies) of a Chinese translation of the first third of ‘Finnegans Wake’ has sold out within a month, propelled by a massive billboard campaign on buildings and freeways throughout China, The London Review of Books (April 3) reports. But it might be a while before avid Chinese readers get their hands on the rest. When asked when it would appear, the translator, Dai Congrong, said, ‘May God give me the courage to finish it.’
Writing together
‘Writing together’, an account of how we came to be Gert Loveday, is up on
http://www.girl-who-reads.com/2014/03/gert-loveday-writing-together.html