Great observation by the New Yorker in 2008!
Bookshop vs the online giant.
#readmorebooks
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(1809 - 1892) Alfred Lord Tennyson. Prolific, sentimental, romantic poet. Poet Laureate 42 years. HM Queen Victoria said "very peculiar looking, tall, dark, with a fine head, long black flowing hair & a beard... there is no affectation about him."
1858, more than 30 years to go.
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#October 1990. First issue of UK edition of Mirabella, edited by Lesley White, published by Murdoch Magazines. Named for Grace Mirabella (1929 - 2021), legendary American fashionista. Isabella Rossellini on the cover.
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#OTD in 1806, carbon paper "stylographic writer" was patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgwood of the potter family (1766–1837).
Possibly without the vintage W H Smith logo.
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Born #OTD in 1935, Thomas Kenneally in Australia. Schindler's Ark is a Booker Prize-winning historical fiction novel published in 1982, a tale of optimism against a background of atrocity. #Booksintomovies, under the name Schindler’s List, Spielberg 1993, seven Oscars!
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“I became incapable of reading Keats. On the other hand, I could not put Yeats down. The majestic later poems committed themselves to my memory.. In my dusty room…he was my luxury.”
May Week Was In June, writer & broadcaster Clive James (born #OTD 1939, died 2019). Missed.
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Making his escape down a staircase in Brussels...
Tintin . I never really thought about him but now I find Hergé’s work delightful.
Here he is breakfasting alongside his little white dog Milou @helen_warlow
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October 1978. National Magazine Company (Hearst) launches Company magazine. A sassier younger version of supertanker Cosmopolitan,
strategically on sale two weeks after Cosmo. Unashamed to discuss the philandering Warren Beatty. Ceased print publication October 2014.@hearstuk
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“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.” #RudyardKipling.
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5 October 1982, there may be troubles ahead, first episode of Harry’s Game broadcast by Yorkshire tv #OTD in 1982, based on the 1975 Belfast thriller Harry's Game by Gerald Seymour.
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Gruau was a genius of illustration - his ‘patte’ (paw mark= style) immediately recognisable. I once interviewed him for a magazine and he spoke wonderfully about elegance and sprezzatura as important social values (which he noticed with some sadness were receding in the 1990s).
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Fashion illustrator Count Renato Caminate professionally known as René Gruau, his work is both instantly recognisable and highly desirable! Programme for the Bal Du Moulin Rouge (opened #OTD in 1889) - Frisson, in Paris 1966. In softback with original cord tie. #moulinrouge
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1953 novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissill. Love blossoms. Reworked for musical The Pajama Game, opened on Broadway 1954, London the following year. Of note: original choreography – his first musical – by Bob Fosse (1927 -1987) award-winner for Cabaret and Sweet Charity.#sheetmusic
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Got one JJ right!
Quizy Monday starts with #Mastermind
Aztec Empire
Janis Joplin
Poirot
Max Verstaffen
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Quizy Monday starts with #Mastermind
Aztec Empire
Janis Joplin
Poirot
Max Verstaffen
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Interesting note, thanks
One rejection, as far as we can tell, and he stopped trying to publish it. Many other things - Myles, An Béal Bocht, plays etc. - followed... but no more novels in English until The Hard Life twenty years later. It looks as if O'Nolan was desperate for money and praise
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Born #OTD 1939 in Carlisle, (Baron) Melvyn Bragg. Working class childhood, grammar school education led into the BBC, long career in broadcasting, notably The South Bank Show and In Our Time, scriptwriter and author. W H Smith Literary Award in 2000 for The Soldier’s Return.
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October 1969, Harper’s Bazaar, celebrating 40 years of publishing in the UK, from Hearst. Susan Blakely and Tania Mallett photo by Don McCullin.
(First published in NYC November 1867, as a weekly Harper's Bazaar, a repository of fashion, pleasure and instruction). #october
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