Hints and tips:
...They had organised religion, working drains and dentistry. But what they didn’t have was black people....
...Don DeLillo, which you’ll find repeated in this book) is a skewering portrait of office culture; To Rise Again at a Decent Hour takes on the profession of dentistry....
...Many readers don’t know how the FT works, which is fair enough: I don’t know how accountancy or dentistry work. Let me briefly explain....
...Compared to such Berlin contemporaries as Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein, his work looks old-fashioned....
...In the General Motors pavilion students stood proudly beside the Studebakers, wearing blazers and broad smiles — themselves dazzling exhibitions of world-beating American dentistry....
...To Rise Again at a Decent Hour (Viking) The American author’s comic novel about the midlife crisis, as the FT’s reviewer put it, also “has some important, timely and well-researched things to say about dentistry...
...Everland is a deftly interwoven tale of two Antarctic journeys, a century apart – the first loosely based on Scott’s mission, the second a contemporary field trip....
...Joshua Ferris, Viking, RRP£16.99/ Little, Brown, RRP$26 A dazzling comic novel about midlife crisis which, as our reviewer put it, also “has some important, timely and well-researched things to say about dentistry...
...Kennedy and Hutchison are not great acquisitors, she says, but they have celebrated key moments by buying contemporary art, including this powerfully serene work by the American Daniel Ludwig....
...Plymouth, on the UK’s south coast, is a city known for its maritime history but this week it is a contemporary sailing challenge that takes centre-stage....
...The accompaniment is pop songs by Philip Glass, which I find rather less to my taste in manner and hand-knitted text and baying performance than root-canal dentistry....
...Indoors, he has a colourful contemporary oil portrait by Samantha Robertson called “Happy” and a series of terra-cotta human figures in a single line set against a coral-coloured wall....
...He knows more about music, medicine, dentistry, the prostate, childcare, legal matters, and so on and so forth, than anyone else alive. The rest of us are mere incompetents.”...
International Edition