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Bezig met laden... Slightly Foxed: No. 19: A Lonely Furrow Autumn 2008 (editie 2008)door Gail Pirkis (Redacteur), Hazel Wood (Redacteur)
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• An article about V. S. Pritchett's A Cab at the Door, which at the time of publication, had been recently released as a limited edition hardcover by SF. Since then it has been released as a softcover which is proudly sitting on my "British Editors" shelf.
• An article about James Munro's John Craig spy thrillers, beginning with The Man Who Sold Death made me want to discover his now little known hero. Munro is better known as James Mitchell, who was among other things the scriptwriter for The Avengers British tv series. Here is how the books and their hero are described:
• The novel of William Faulkner as seen by a British fan.
• Aunts Up the Cross by Robin Eakin, an Australian classic, which "begins and ends with the death of the author's great-aunt Juliet, aged 85 and frankly pretty eccentric if not downright mad. She was run over by a bus which was travelling slowly in the right direction while the old lady was going pretty fast in the opposite, wrong direction. Her progress was made all the more haphazard by the dark glasses which she wore throughout the year. 'Her untimely end might have been dramatic in a family more given over to quieter leave taking.' wrote her great-niece, Robin Eakin. 'But, in ours, it just seemed natural.'"
• An article on The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Non-Fiction, 1909-1959 made me want to seek out this book and read it asap. It features a few choice excerpts, such as this:
• Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle, described from the point of view of a writer who has always appreciated the evolution's of the heroine's efforts at becoming a writer in this book within a book (told by a young girl who is writing in her journal and whose skills evolve as time goes by) which became a favourite of mine after reading (well, listening to) it in 2012.
• My favourite article was probably the one written by a school librarian who describes how storytelling has in been know to literally make the difference between life in death, in the cases of prisoners in Siberian labour camps for example. She contrasts this with the changes which librarians were expected to make from reading out loud to group of children to the necessity in the computer age of teaching 'information skills' and of course, as can be expected, makes a darn good case why the former is essential and the latter... not so much. ( )