Hints and tips:
...There were the great personalities in publishing — Liz Calder and Robert McCrum creating superb fiction lists; the launching of Bloomsbury and other independents....
...As we clink glasses, two more guests arrive: F Scott Fitzgerald, chronicler of the excesses of the 1920s and author of two of my favourite books, and his wife, muse and drinking companion Zelda Fitzgerald...
...So this is the perfect time to tackle Anthony Powell’s 12-volume cycle of novels, A Dance to the Music of Time....
...Harvard professor Robert Putnam attributes the absence of young Americans from church today to having grown up in a period where “being religious meant being politically conservative”....
...And if that doesn’t happen, you’re going to have a huge amount of backlash against the board and management to do something,” says Youssef Squali, an analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald....
...And even more by John Anster Fitzgerald (“Fairy Fitzgerald”), the Victorian painter whose love of opium and his gentleman’s club kept him indoors dreaming of robins garlanded with sorrel and Lilliputian...
...I would like to do a Grand Tour of Egypt, Africa and Europe with Oscar Wilde or F Scott Fitzgerald. I want Cleopatra as my tour guide for Egypt. Most memorable holiday? When I went to Mexico....
...Anthony Reilly, former director, British Council in Iraq. Stuart Rutherford, microfinance adviser. Piers Sellers, astronaut....
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