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Forthcoming book examines the role of humans in the eradication of species, and its findings are not likely to be pleasantAt first sight it seems an unlikely topic for a landmark publishing deal: a fee of about half a million (Read More)
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Stephen Fry, writer and comedian, 52ON HIS COMEDY PARTNER HUGH LAURIE IN "HOUSE"One of the hardest things to do is act smart. But you actually believe that he is intelligent (2006)ASKED BY HIS SCHOOL CAREERS OFFICER WHAT JOB (Read More)
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Great writers never die, they just fade awayLiterature and longevity make poor companions. If most writers' reputations are made, or at least begun, before the age of 40, then very few novelists put many runs on the scoreboar (Read More)
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His new play, The Habit of Art, is ostensibly about Auden and Britten. In reality it's about Alan Bennett himself. We trace his journey of self-discoveryAlan Bennett has once or twice had a go at being a little more unbuttone (Read More)
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Relentless daily trivia, the shackles of conformity and the "clamour of the world" were, for Ted Hughes, foes of the creative spirit. And Hughes the writer is the focus of this magnificent collection, which captivatingly expl (Read More)
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Adam Mars-Jones finds much to relish in Blake Bailey's life of John Cheever – a writer who had an immense capacity for joy but none for happinessBlake Bailey seems to specialise in writing the lives of self-destructive Americ (Read More)
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His new play, The Habit of Art, is ostensibly about Auden and Britten. In reality it's about Alan Bennett himself. We trace his journey of self-discoveryAlan Bennett has once or twice had a go at being a little more unbuttone (Read More)
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Anyone who's anyone wears his rhyming slogan T-shirts. Supermodel Agyness Deyn is his best friend. And now this young peacock is putting the debonair into Debenhams…Henry Holland thinks that, on reflection, he did not inherit (Read More)
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Guardian writer Hadley Freeman is at the end of her tether with Fry's wittering twittersNew year resolutions can start very early this old year by popular acclaim, or revulsion. Three weeks ago, the Guardian's Hadley Freeman (Read More)
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A clutch of new films will cement Matt Damon's reputation as the hit of his generation. But that won't change this most reserved and politically committed of actors. Vanessa Thorpe reportsRunners taking part in the annual Mia (Read More)
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For two decades Darcey Bussell was Britain's greatest ballerina. So what's it going to be like for the Strictly Come Dancing contestants when she starts judging on the show next month? Here, she talks about her new life in S (Read More)
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Fifteen years after the genocide that killed a million people, Rwanda's warring tribes have reached a truce. But will it hold? Here, the world's leading writer on Rwanda meets the killers, the survivors, and the man bringing (Read More)
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(Author: John Knight)As a father of a multiply-disabled child, I have consumed dozens of books, articles, and web sites on suffering, disability, and the sovereignty of God. What I read yesterday morning from a young man wit (Read More)
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As I take a seat at the small table facing a packed room at L.A.'s Writer's Guild for a panel on new media, I'm aware of three things. First, that there are two seasoned entertainment business executives seated who feel stron (Read More)
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Running at about 80%, which is fine if I don't get worse.One of the delightful traditions of cyberspace is the availability of free software. Excellent free software. For example, there are a number of freeware programs I can (Read More)
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Playwright John Patrick Shanley referring to Tennessee Williams as a "gorgeous unstoppable beast," recounted an incident in a restaurant when he, a budding writer, maybe thirty feet away from the master dramatist, could (Read More)
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Alan Bennett's new play imagines a meeting between Britten and Auden 25 years after they fell out irrevocably. But why did their creative relationship go wrong?This is a sample of the writing Benjamin Britten set to music in (Read More)
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LAS VEGAS — Investigators cracked a youthful burglary ring that preyed on Hollywood's rich and famous, often brazenly walking into their unlocked homes to make off with cash, jewels and family heirlooms, authorities said.A su (Read More)
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The Guidelines: Random notes from pop cultureSophie Barthes's engaging new comedy Cold Souls is the latest of a new breed of films that can be called "Kaufmanesque", with deference to the screenplays of Charlie Kaufman. In Ka (Read More)
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The Men Who Stare At Goats (12A) (Grant Heslov, 2009, US) George Clooney, Ewan McGregor. 94 mins.A fiction less strange than the truth, this takes the juicy bits from Jon Ronson's startling book on the outer limits of US mili (Read More)
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