Adventures in N-Town
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Halloween Reading List: Part Two
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See part one here . 12. The Phantom ‘Rickshaw – Rudyard Kipling A man breaks off an affair in order to marry another woman. He is ha...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Halloween Reading List: Part One
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I'm not one for horror films, or Zombies, or creepy Halloween decorations. In fact, I hate them. Why, then, am I writing a Halloween ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
The Heart of the Matter
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This is not the first time that I have blogged on Graham Greene, and it will certainly not be the last time. Greene was not an ...
Saturday, May 10, 2014
The Myth of John Johanna
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In 1966, Bob Dylan was interviewed by Playboy. Over that past year or so he had been involved in a lot of controversy and acrimo...
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Civil Servants Playing Cowboys and Indians: Absurd Moments in Espionage
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Espionage is a dirty business. A dangerous business. A dull business. John le Carre brilliantly captured this in his 1963 novel, The Sp...
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Melissa Annetta: Vladimir Nabokov at the Little Cottonwood
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I have a delightful Russian-language anthology of Vladimir Nabokov miscellania, which I acquired in Utah, of all places. For me, that makes ...
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
A Gun For Sale: Mormons and Mohammedans
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I am LDS, so it is rather fun to come across unexpected references to Mormons in unrelated books. One of the pivotal scenes in A Gun ...
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