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...Gordon Lish’s drastic and fastidious work on Raymond Carver’s prose created the author’s stripped-down style....
...Tickets are available from the website, from the festival box office in the Blackwell’s marquee, or by telephone: 0333 666 3366....
...Inside, they can enjoy the new Blackwell Hall, a grand, double-height exhibition space, atop which the bookstacks are visible on glazed walkways known as The Floating Stack....
...Plaid shirt wearers included keynote speaker Christopher Poole, founder of message board 4Chan, and Joshua Huck of Lamebook.com....
...Even Christopher Buckley’s review of Closing Time, which Heller loved, is described as “perceptive, if mixed”....
...Michael Gordon-Lennox, chairman, St Dunstan’s, the ex-servicemen’s charity. John Martyn, singer-songwriter. Aileen McGlynn, Paralympic cyclist....
...The NAACP has lost influence as it has come to be perceived as a mere Democratic pressure group and Mr Bush’s visit a week ago owes much to the new, less partisan leadership of the entrepreneur Bruce Gordon...
...Adam Afriyie Henry Angest Peter Baker Grahame Berkeley Sir Michael Bett Julian Blackwell John Blundell Jamie Borwick Keith Boyfield Iain Breese David Briggs Simon Camamile Paul Carter Stephen...
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