12 Saturday Nov 2016
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Chelsea Hotel No. 2, Lana Del Rey, Leonard Cohen, McCabe and Mrs Miller, Sisters of Mercy, Winter Lady
I first heard his music while watching Robert Altman’s anti-Western, McCabe and Mrs Miller, in Camden during the late eighties. That cinema is now long-gone, but the film – made not long before I was born – left a lasting impression. Continue reading
16 Monday Jun 2014
‘My Baby Shot Me Down’ is the subtitle of ‘Bang Bang’, an eerie ballad made famous by Cher and Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s, and more recently revived in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill. And it is now the title of a new anthology, showcasing women writers. On the cover a paint-splattered angel, or ballerina – a little girl’s figurine – dons a gas-mask for what looks like a psychedelic reworking of Nirvana’s In Utero. Continue reading
17 Friday Jan 2014
Posted in Anniversaries, Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry
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Born on this day in 1820, Anne Brontë – author of Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – has sometimes been overshadowed by her sisters, but was a great novelist, poet and social critic in her own right. You can read my tribute to her at For Books’ Sake.
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15 Wednesday May 2013
Assia Wevill, born on this day in 1927, is perhaps best-known as the woman who came between the most celebrated literary couple of the twentieth century, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. I explore her extraordinary life – and tragic death – over at For Books’ Sake.
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22 Friday Feb 2013
My tribute to American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, born on this day in 1892, is published at For Books’ Sake.
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