Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
Reviewing John Carey’s biography of William Golding in 2009, Peter Conrad reported: Once, staying at a friend’s house in London, Golding awoke in panic and dismembered a Bob Dylan puppet because he thought it was Satan. Conrad is unimpressed by…
Consider the following statements. Thelonious Monk was a musician. Bob Dylan is a musician. Technically, (2) as true as (1) as long as a person who makes a living singing songs and playing a musical instrument is a musician. On the…
Some people are asking, “Why not Philip Roth? Why not Leonard Cohen?” Well, for some reason Stockholm doesn’t like Roth. It’s almost as if they had agreed to strike him off the list for good. Cohen is Canadian. Alice Munro…