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Sep.10.2009 Flaming East The fresh perspective of an outsider-on-the-inside releases energy from all directions. What strikes us about a place — and may entice our fellow country-people – often does not resonate to the same degree with the average native. I was pleased to meet an expat woman entrepreneur on LinkedIn last...	May.22.2009 Any Brits out there? Just a quick appeal to see if there are any UK authors out there, particularly the London area. It would be good to network/swap ideas. Would it be worth starting a club for the Brit Pack?
Apr.29.2009 Remainder by Tom McCarthy--art informs literature Remainder, by TomMcCarthy, a British writer and artist, is a great reminder of how writing interacts with the world of art and its concern with space. Remainder, told in the first person, is a book about a man with amnesia who--as a result of an accident--gets over 8 million pounds as...	Feb.19.2009 BUST A GUT LAUGHING Those British mavens of humour are at it again. Fall down funny 'til you die. Even the Queen is amused. They have compiled a "Top Ten Funniest Book List" . A happy circumstance is that my cherished influence, P.G. Wodehouse, has two books on the list. Tally-ho, say I. Has there ever been...
Nov.09.2008 Bodies at Rest; Bodies in Motion I first decided to attend the British American Drama Academy at Oxford as an excuse to inspect a country that had inscrutably made its way in to my psyche. Post-punk music, Merchant Ivory films and Evelyn Waugh novels had ceased whispering and begun to scream at me. So had Gus Hardy, a still...	May.18.2008 Enough divorce courts already Very funny, but, then again, not so funny. Steve Lopez' article in the L.A. Times today ("Same-sex couples can't do worse at marriage than straight couples," www.latimes.com, May 18) speculates that, if gay couples -- whom the California Supreme Court says can now wed -- divorce at the...

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