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...As an editorial assistant and in his spare time, he rubs shoulders with such figures as James Baldwin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Angela Carter, Sigrid Nunez, Stephen Spender, Philip Roth and Derek Walcott....
...Ian and Sue Walcott came to central London dressed for the occasion, clad in a tweed suit and bowler hat and a silk union jack headscarf....
...I have Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout, the follow-up to My Name is Lucy Barton, which I loved....
...Nor will you discover from this book that literary life in England involves a host of writers from Caribbean, African and Asian diasporas, not just Rushdie, Naipaul and Walcott....
...II as head of state The climate is tropical, with average highs of 31C and average lows of 23C Two St Lucians have won Nobel Prizes — Derek Walcott for literature and Arthur Lewis for economics — giving...
...Observations are presented as essential truths, obvious to anyone with a modicum of good taste: Derek Walcott is a fraud, Rudyard Kipling was not a racist, Geoffrey Hill is a disingenuous obfuscator....
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