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...Little-read and under-published, he’d be broke were it not for his day job as a professor of English literature, and he riles at sightings of his books in the black sections of bookstores....
...I’m having a pause in which I re-read Percival Everett’s Erasure, the enjoyable novel that became the movie American Fiction, before diving into Herron’s standalone novels....
...Nonetheless, as someone with a deep love of language but little linguistic knowledge, I learnt a great deal from reading The Language Puzzle....
...“It was one of the few resorts where you could still ski all the pistes throughout the season last year while much of Europe had very little snow,” says Oscar Pesch, a 55-year-old entrepreneur from The Hague...
...tie pin or lapel pin,” says Frank Everett, Sotheby’s vice-chair of jewellery....
...Adapted from the sharp 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, American Fiction has a redoubled sting today, and its potshots at pieties and stereotypes might even court a little controversy. ★★★★☆ Alexander...
...Rupert Everett reads from Coward’s diaries with a tamped-down, melancholy edge; Alan Cumming narrates as if worried we might walk out should he pause for breath....
...When I was little, I would read it by torchlight....
...There is frustratingly little record of his theatrical heyday, although the 78rpm record of the Private Lives balcony scene captures the fragrance of the early Coward style....
...Uber-featured works from the March 9 auction included Andy Warhol’s “Little Electric Chair” (1964, est $4mn-$6mn) and Jeff Koons’s kitsch “Ushering in Banality” (1988, est $2.5mn-$3.5mn)....
...The vessel arriving from Trinidad at the Everett LNG terminal near Boston will be the 11th to land in the region this year, up from nine last year, according to Kpler, a tanker tracker....
...The poem describes crowds of people enthusiastically observing a tortured, hanging body, the final couplet emphasising generational entrenchment: And little lads, lynchers that were to be, / Danced round...
...Sir Steve Webb and David Everett, who contributed to this article, are partners at consultancy LCP....
...To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde, by Rupert Everett, Little, Brown, RRP£20, 342 pages Miranda Seymour is the author of ‘In Byron’s Wake’ Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books...
...It’s like a little black dress or a camel coat or a pair of jeans – you are never finished with it. There’s always a new way to do it.”...
...Spitznagel started out in finance at 16, as a clerk for traders who cleared their business through the firm of Everett Klipp....
...Everett is in favour of an early bath. “I live in a house that is attached to my mother’s, and often we run into each other at the end of the day and have a little chat....
...“I’m just a lonely guy with a little boy and two dogs,” Mark Everett — also known as E — told NME in a recent interview....
...A new ‘religion’ Tiger Global’s recent investment streak has confounded some rivals, who have whispered that the firm performs little due diligence and pays inflated prices, similar to Japan’s SoftBank....
...Boeing, which started manufacturing the 787 in Everett in the Puget Sound region of Washington state in 2007, has already twice cut production plans for the aircraft since the pandemic began....
...‘Our own little Trumps are still alive and kicking’ Not all European leaders have rushed to congratulate Mr Biden on his election victory....
...The penalties were “a little bit of cold comfort” in the Covid-19 outbreak, Mr Pearce said, “since employees are irreversibly damaged if they contract this virus and they’re not able to recover”....
...I also have these watercolours I travel with, which are at home at the moment, so I’ve been painting a little too....
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...I had hoped to catch Edward Albee’s 1962 play on stage in New York this month, starring Laurie Metcalf, Rupert Everett and Russell Tovey, but with Broadway closed and my transatlantic flight cancelled, I...
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