Member: mullaghman

Hi,

Was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Saw you liked Paris Trout, and I thought you might like my novel since it's also southern and a bit dark. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like. Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id...

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 9:17 am (EST) on Mar 23, 2009

M,

The link worked in the accompanying Email but not direct from 'My Profile' page.

Edward Champion's 'Perils' article was indeed timely - following closely upon two articles which have had me pondering:

http://tinyurl.com/ywmcl5

for a review of Novick's second volume of his Henry James biography. Leavitt goes straight to Novick's speculative wonderings/wanderings... I note also a further book on Henry James's Paris sojourns by P Brooks 'Henry James goes to Paris'. The Book Depository description, mixing in Lodge and Toibin, lead me to think that it was fiction - but a check on the publisher's [Princeton University Press] makes it quite clear that it is not.

I recently purchased Paul Griffith's biography/study of 'Jean Barraque: The sea on fire' which has the fantastically annoying ubiquity of addressing the subject throughout its 184 pages, par example:

'It begins like this, Jean. You were born around midday...your mother had gone there to be with her parents...At six months you were baptised...' and so on.

Lastly the recent death of Diane Wood Middlebrook had Carole Angier commencing her Guardian obituary with:

'The biography of Anne Sexton (1991) by Diane Middlebrook...was one of the turning points of late C20th biography, extending its right to examine private life further than any book since Michael Holroyd's Strachey...' Ah that man again.

I'm reading nonsense at the moment - it was supposed to keep me entertained during the Christmas onslaught - and up to a point did, but am about to curl up with Maurice Blanchot's 'Faux Pas' - yet I feel discombobulated.

New Year greetings to you.

Peter

posted by peterbrown at 7:26 am (EST) on Dec 27, 2007

M,

I also finished the Richard Ford, all three, a couple of weeks ago. Some pundits rate 'Independence Day' as the best - and note as a Pullitzer Prize winner it's the most read - I felt they went on getting better. I've also a (strange) theory that Kierkegaard is a key player in Ford's schema - and noted that he get's 3 mentions in 'The lay of the land'.

I've aslo been reading early stuff by Caryl Phillips - doing some work for slavery exhibitions. For light reading I quite enjoyed Juliet Phillips 'The perfect summer: Dancing into shadow in 1911' - a sort of tour of the toffs against industrial unrest and pissed of servants. An amusing howler re. 'Joyce, like Yeats being influenced by Madame Blavatsky', - well yeah but only to mock Willie!

I start my 2 weeks holiday next weekend - a short trip to Liverpool planned - and I'm sniffing around Bill Faulkner's Snopes trilogy - every so often I need a Faulkner fix - seems now might be the right time.

Best, P

posted by peterbrown at 1:14 pm (EST) on Aug 26, 2007

M,

I've just printed it off and enjoyed thanks for bringing to my notice. It reminded me of that wonderful Henry James short Story 'The figure in the carpet' - about time I re-read it.

Peter

ps. have you enjoyed any Literary biographies lately?

posted by peterbrown at 12:57 pm (EST) on Aug 18, 2007

I noticed in a Guardian obituary last week [14th Feb] that Malcolm Bowie died at the end of January - only 63. I attended a lecture by him at The Festival Hall many years ago - I think it was to launch his 'Proust and the stars'. He was a delightful man - very clear and infectiously enthusiastic. He convinced me it was time to part with my much loved & much read Scott Moncrieff translation of 'A la Recherche...' and invest in the Scott Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright revision which was good advice - though I miss the charming Chatto edition. Best wishes - Peter.

posted by peterbrown at 12:03 pm (EST) on Feb 17, 2007

He'll be missed

posted by tartalom at 4:37 pm (EST) on Apr 4, 2006

donleavy. Mmm - must have been in a bad mood

posted by tartalom at 11:18 am (EST) on Jan 13, 2006

mullagh in county clare?

posted by tartalom at 7:11 pm (EST) on Jan 11, 2006