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...While his rendition of Kairos is mostly smooth, at times even James Salter-esque, I found myself missing the voice of Susan Bernofsky, who had translated Erpenbeck’s previous novels....
...Locally caught seafood arrives from artisan fish merchant Mike Warner (his store, A Passion for Seafood, is at Grange Farm, Hasketon) and meat from craft butcher Gerard King of Salter & King, who works with...
...On September 1, chair James McCarthy bought £78,000-worth of shares and non-executive director Robbie Bell picked up £120,000-worth, with both transactions completing at 120p a share....
...Dalia James Each of the geometric wall hangings that textile artist Dalia James, 35, creates at her east London studio contains about 2,000 threads, which she must individually thread on to her loom....
...We gradually get the measure of the way science has enabled Salter, having failed as a father to his first son, to start over....
...Led by Jamie Salter, Authentic has more than 6,000 stores....
....” ― James Salter BlackRock’s initial public offering, on October 1 1999, was not a “great moment”. It bombed....
...I think overall this is Rooney’s strongest writing thus far, bathed in a soft white light — she does some wonderful things with light, and air — bearing (sometimes heavy) glimmers of James Salter and Proust...
.... $64, salter.house The podcasts I’m listening to are The World As You’ll Know It, about the world post-Covid. It’s very optimistic, which I love....
...Dukes Bar, St James’s The Egerton House Hotel, Knightsbridge Connaught Bar, Mayfair Rules, Covent Garden The Fumoir, Claridge’s, Mayfair My idol is the late American writer James Salter, and not just for...
...So a 1975 profile by James Salter from People magazine is reduced to five fragments on half a page that come straight from Nabokov’s mouth....
...Her lyricism — “the sea is black, bladed, strung with small lights” — reveals the influence of James Salter, but it’s a voice, fierce and unapologetic, uniquely her own....
...Do include at least one writers’ writer — I suggest James Salter or Iris Murdoch — as these indicate insider status to other literary initiates....
...There’s a nippy reading of Fats Waller’s “Ain’t Misbehavin’ ” featuring twiddles, riffs and a clearly stated theme, and a reworking of the 1975 arrangement of Ralph McDonald and William Salter’s “Mister...
...James Salter’s career as a novelist began with him hiding in plain sight....
...In James Salter’s memoir, Burning the Days, he writes of his time in Europe: “The thing it finally gave was education, not the lessons of school but something more elevated, a view of existence: how to have...
...And to James Salter in Warsaw and recently in Prague. That's it for this week. Until next week, goodbye....
...I am grateful also to Richard Yates for Revolutionary Road and James Salter for Light Years, novels that likewise posit the domestic realm as a valid site for literature (if “Great Male Narcissists” come...
...Joy Williams is regularly hailed as one of America’s greatest living writers, praised — by admirers including Don DeLillo, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver and James Salter — in the same terms as giants...
...James Salter, Joy Williams, Deborah Eisenberg, Javier Marías, Edward St Aubyn, Bernard MacLaverty, Don DeLillo, Muriel Spark. Where is your favourite place in the world?...
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...I can think of few writers — Virginia Woolf is one, James Salter another — so able to propel a narrative through voice alone....
...I make it with Noilly Prat vermouth and always have everything needed to prepare it. noillyprat.com The best book I’ve read in the past year is Light Years by James Salter....
...Another scene, from another American novel: in James Salter’s Light Years, from 1975, the self-regarding male protagonist attempts to commission a shirt with the wrong sleeve-length and (horror!)...
...Last weekend, I picked up James Salter’s All That Is (Picador/Vintage) — the most brilliant novel I have read in years....
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