Sep 2016 · Blog

Summer reads: literary fiction

My 2016 summer reads settled into three sections: thrillers, literary fiction, and nonfiction. Here are thoughts on that literary side: Don Carpenter Hard Rain Falling. Don Carpenter is a new writer for me, reclaimed in the…

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Mar 2016 · Blog

Philip Larkin’s Grave

Julian Barnes agreed to come and talk to students at Hull about his book A Sense of an Ending on one condition – he would be taken to visit the grave of Philip Larkin.…

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