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...The audio version is an ensemble piece, read by Frank Blake, Moe Dunford and Seana Kerslake, who take the parts of Kala’s friends, reunited in their home town over a summer....
...This is not the suburbs of Nixon or even George Wallace. These are much more diverse suburbs. And the suburban women voter right now is frankly not, I think, easily spooked on that regard....
...Some 18 metres high, towering right up the four storeys of the building, is a mighty headless figure — recognisably William Blake’s “Ghost of a Flea”, with its talons instead of toes and its scaly back....
...Commission Sir Robert Cooper Former adviser to Javier Solana and Catherine Ashton Andy Lebrecht Former UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the EU Ian Mulheirn Oxford Economics Prof Dame Helen Wallace...
...Born in 1929, DeFeo was a West Coast Beat, part of a San Francisco cohort that included Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner and Allen Ginsberg....
...We follow Old India hand, Jeremiah Blake, along with Lieutenant William Avery, on their hunt for Xavier Mountstuart, a poet obsessed with the Thugs....
...Smith’s essays in recent years have revealed a growing interest in the techniques of writers such as Tom McCarthy and David Foster Wallace, whose experimental prose, she has argued, portray people’s inherent...
...Wallace Spearmon of the US pipped Christophe Lemaitre to second place, with the Frenchman also qualifying as a fastest loser. “I think it’s going to be interesting,” Blake said of Thursday’s final....
...Amis, as was Foster Wallace, is a tennis fan, and even plays recreationally....
...As a boy, he’d read Wallace, Buchan, Conan Doyle, and he shared their breeziness. For example, he didn’t like to do second drafts because he was bad at typing, and found it hard work....
...The founding text of the modern literary memoir was probably British poet Blake Morrison’s And When Did You Last See Your Father?...
...In a reflection of tennis’s schizoid fortunes, the David Nalbandian v James Blake semi-final that followed felt like punishment, almost another sport....
...For Dutch painters, Cats’s was a useful metaphor: a good example is in London’s Wallace Collection - a small canvas by the short-lived Leiden-born painter Gabriel Metsu entitled “The Sleeping Sportsman”....
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