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Jazz With Ella
excerpt and pedal off. As soon as Tanya strolled in the other direction, Paul and Vera emerged from the bushes.“We must go in and see.” Vera dragged him to the rickety building.“We don’t need to,” he demurred.“You think I am a spy, but it is good to have this information. It is good to know […]
Jazz With Ella
Born on November 18, 1836, W. S. Gilbert transformed English comic writing through his dazzling operatic librettos. With razor-sharp satire, intricate rhyme, and musical wit, he reshaped theatrical language, proving that humor in English can be elegant, rhythmic, and brilliantly subversive.
Birth of W. S. Gilbert (1836 – 1911) – The Master of English Comic Verse and Satirical Operetta
Born in Berlin in 1905, the German writer Irmgard Keun rose to prominence in the early 1930s with her striking novels Gilgi, One of Us (1931) and The Artificial Silk Girl (1932), both of which I love. These books were blacklisted by the Nazis in 1933, primarily for their depictions of the modern young woman, […]
Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann)
Mervyn Peake, who died on November 17, 1968, crafted a literary world defined by shadow, grandeur, and imagination. His Gormenghast trilogy stands as a monumental fusion of Gothic atmosphere and poetic precision, proving that English prose can be both dreamlike and rigorously constructed.
Death of Mervyn Peake (1911 – 1968) – The Gothic Architect of English Imagination
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That renowned street in Berlin
We had a short wait before our timed entrance for the Andy Goldsworthy exhibition, so after dropping our bags in one of the luggage lockers in the Scottish National Gallery we had a quick look in the Scottish Art gallery. We returned for a proper look round after visiting the Goldsworthy show. We also had […]
Scottish Art in Edinburgh
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The Sad Loss of Young Allen Poe
Something a little different from me today – another post in an occasional series of pieces about the art books I’ve accumulated over the past few years, mostly from gallery visits in London and the South East. One of my current reading aims is to sit down and read some of these books, rather than […]
Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious – exhibition and accompanying book
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