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52 Books #28: The Stranger’s Child | The Fire Show
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Music, Books, Adventures. 52 Books #28: The Stranger’s Child. July 13, 2011. Alan Hollinghurst, whose last novel. The Line of Beauty. Won the 2004 Booker Prize, returns with. The Stranger’s Child. Picador), a huge and largely engrossing novel that tells, in five discrete but interlinked sections, a secret history of England in the twentieth century, from before the First World War to the age of emails, mobile phones and civil partnerships. A Room with a View. This section is the key to the rest of the bo...
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Alternative Histories: Two New Books on Music | The Fire Show
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Music, Books, Adventures. Alternative Histories: Two New Books on Music. May 10, 2012. How Soon Is Now? The Madmen and Mavericks Who Made Independent Music 1975–2005. Everybody Loves Our Town: A History of Grunge. Two monumental music history tomes from Faber. Everyone Loves Our Town. How Soon Is Now. And the inevitable point of no return when the bands themselves dissolve in interpersonal acrimony (Dinosuar Jr.), ill-health, or tragedy (Nirvana, most obviously, but several other cases too). With particu...
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David Bowie Is | The Fire Show
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Music, Books, Adventures. Victoria and albert museum. September 6, 2012. To the V&A, for the press launch of next year’s David Bowie Is retrospective. Given access to Bowie’s full archive of costumes, memorabilia, drawings, diaries and artefacts of his five-decade-long career, curators Victoria Broakes and Geoffrey Marsh have collated more than 300 items for display in an exhibition which will open on March 2013. From → Art. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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How does Alice do it? | The Fire Show
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Music, Books, Adventures. How does Alice do it? August 24, 2009. Wow, talk about neglected. Since the last post there’ve been adventures in Big Sur [above], Napa, LA and San Francisco; gigs by TV on the Radio, Fever Ray and Grizzly Bear — three vying for ‘best gig of the year’ status — and more books than I ought to mention. Posts on these may or may not follow! Top of the books heap at the moment is Alice Munro’s. The View from Castle Rock. This sort of ambiguity is everywhere in Munro’s stories&#...
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Dear Life – Alice Munro | The Fire Show
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Music, Books, Adventures. Review of Dear Life. Dear Life – Alice Munro. December 16, 2012. Alice Munro’s 14th collection of short fiction, over at Civilian. Here’s an extract from the review:. An intriguing insight into Munro’s working methods is gained by comparing a story which appears here, In Sight of the Lake , with an earlier iteration of the same story which appeared, some nine months before. S publication, in the British literary magazine. By the time of. You’re sharp as a tack, says Sandy, and i...
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52 Books #14: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | The Fire Show
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Music, Books, Adventures. 52 Books #14: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. April 14, 2011. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. Sceptre) is David Mitchell’s fifth book. Like his last,. Although Jacob is central to the novel, however, he’s also an entry point for Mitchell to explore this isolated, alien-seeming world, through Dejima’s visitors, inhabitants, officials, and prisoners. S ‘Human Nature/The Family of Blood’ but fell far short of making me feel sad or happy for Jacob and his family. P...
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Doctor Who: On audio, no-one can see the sets buckle | The Fire Show
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Music, Books, Adventures. Doctor Who: On audio, no-one can see the sets buckle. June 19, 2013. There’s been a recent flurry of online rumours. Regarding the discovery of a cache of lost. Episodes from the 1960s. I wrote about these ‘missing’ episodes. At some length for. 8212; had little re-screening value, or chance of being sold overseas; as for what we now think of as “merchandising”, the advent of home video was still several years off. Fans used to push their tape recorders close to their TV sets to...
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Doctor Who: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship | The Fire Show
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Music, Books, Adventures. Dinosaurs on a spaceship. Doctor Who: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. September 10, 2012. Yeah, all right, it’s an attention-grabbing title, and no worse (in the sense that it’s mildly descriptive yet opaque) than ‘Planet of Evil’ or ‘The Deadly Assassin’, but it’s just kind of… pushy, isn’t it? Let alone one that is otherwise a big, fun, hyper-colourful, fast-paced — you know I’m adding adjectives to delay this inevitable four-letter word — romp. 8221; — is there any hope that ...
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Doctor Who: Asylum of the Daleks | The Fire Show
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Music, Books, Adventures. Asylum of the daleks. Doctor Who: Asylum of the Daleks. September 8, 2012. Well, it wasn’t every Dalek ever. In fact, between the odd characterisation of the monsters and their gloomy, dust-beshrouded appearance, there were barely any. A TV show with a secret too: I’d managed to remain unspoilered, and was as surprised as anyone to see Jenna-Louise Coleman’s debut in. And is Moffat — who does like to run the same sorts of stories and characters over and over — really...To differ...
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