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Rob Reports: Sarah Churchwell @ EdBookFest 2013 19 Aug 2013 | 04:25 pm
The spirit of the great F. Scott Fitzgerald was very much alive at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this past weekend, when Sarah Churchwell, Professor of American Literature and Public Under...
Rob Reports: Niccolò Ammaniti @ EdBookFest 2013 15 Aug 2013 | 04:44 pm
Niccolò Ammaniti’s event may have been subtitled ‘the party’s over’, but it was really only just beginning when he took to the stage in the Baillie Gifford Corner Theatre on Sunday evening, in front o...
Rob Reports: Rodge Glass and Adam Marek @ EdBookFest 2013 14 Aug 2013 | 11:26 pm
*picture credit: Peggy Riley It’s always a time of excitement for the short fiction lover when a dedicated event is scheduled in Charlotte Square, and there was much to get enthusiastic about when tw...
Behind the Pen: Niccolò Ammaniti 14 Aug 2013 | 05:15 pm
Few contemporary writers get me in as much of a spin these days as the Italian, Niccolò Ammaniti. And so it was a real honour for this super fan to catch up with the man at this year’s Edinburgh Book ...
Chekhov Shorts: The Beggar 11 Jun 2013 | 01:39 pm
This is a lovely story from Chekhov. It's short and to the point, but it comes with a typical Chekhovian twist at the end, that must have had nineteenth-centry Russians in stitches (and not a few mode...
Chekhov Shorts: Frost 11 Jun 2013 | 01:38 pm
Title: Frost Date Read: 11th June 2013 Briefly: The town has organised a fete to coincide with the Feast of Epiphany. And while it may be 31 degrees below zero, the townsfolk are determined that it wi...
Devouring De Maupassant: Discovery 10 Jun 2013 | 03:49 pm
A reasonably amusing tale from Maupassant which is laced with anti-English sentiment. This isn't a down-and-out exercise in Maupassant taking a pop at his across the Channel neighbours though, rather ...
Devouring De Maupassant: The Accursed Bread 10 Jun 2013 | 03:36 pm
Rather a standard tale from Maupassant, but one that for all intents and purposes seems a little drawn out. Perhaps I'm missing something here but Maupassant seems to dwell in areas that do little to ...
Totally Fitzgerald: Retyping The Great Gatsby 17 May 2013 | 09:00 pm
Well, today sees the UK cinema launch of Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. For weeks now we’ve been bombarded with hype, and interviews, and shiny pictures and video...
Introducing ‘Totally Fitzgerald’ 17 May 2013 | 08:58 pm
Back in February/March you barely heard a peep from me, and for good reason. You see I had totally become absorbed in an author. I go through stages like this in my life, when I hook onto something – ...
