THE INDEPENDENT: It takes an intrepid investigative journalist (which Simon Garfield is) to write about a passion for stamp-collecting. As a typically droll aside puts it, "Hollywood child-molesters stand more chance of rehabilitation". Piling risk on risk, this witty and poignant memoir-cum-meditation fails to stick within the safe zone of deftly phrased nostalgia for a cute suburban childhood.
TELEGRAPH: I'm probably one of the few people," Lewis said of himself, "that can actually enter a room and leave it, and nobody will know that I've been there.
THE INDEPENDENT: A row has broken out in Portugal's literary world over plans by heirs of the nation's most famous modern poet,
Fernando Pessoa, to auction his unpublished manuscripts and letters.
allAFRICA: The writer António Gumbe will release on Friday here his book entitled "Resistance to Colonial Occupation in the south of Angola", ANGOP has learnt.
THE INDEPENDENT: How delightful that a statue of the man who wrote "It is useless to pretend that I enjoy myself abroad" adorns the refurbished St Pancras.
LA TIMES:
In "The Reel Stuff," Brian Thomsen and Martin H. Greenberg have gathered an eclectic collection of fantasy and horror stories gone Hollywood that offers an opportunity to examine how these speculative tales were adapted for the screen.
THREE PERCENT: This memoir sounds pretty interesting in and of itself—
Rosenkranz became a famous poet late in life, and was a friend of Paul Celan’s, who was in the same fascist work camp as Rosenkranz during WWII—but the translation was what really got people’s attention.
CBC CA: Montreal writer Rawi Hage has won the world's richest writing prize for his debut novel, De Niro's Game, organizers of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award announced on Thursday. The book was nominated by the Winnipeg Public Library.
allAFRICA: Humphrey Nwosu, the boisterous former chairman of the defunct National Electoral Commission, is set to reopen old wounds with the launch of his new book today. The professor of political science is giving his own account since the annulment of the presidential election held on June 12, 1993, by the ruling military junta and his forced resignation as NEC chairman.
USA TODAY: Rick Bragg never thought of his father, a violent alcoholic, as a prince until his third memoir. The Prince of Frogtown (Knopf, ...
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