3 days ago by Richard

Clive James is one of my favourite writers. When I was 13 years old I wanted to write like him. I still do. Deeply funny and very, very well-read. Cambridge educated, he wears his omniverous intellect lightly, rather like David Mitchell. He’s Australian, but like fellow brainy Aussie Germaine Greer, ...

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4 days ago by Damian

I listened to an advent audio essay on BBC radio 4 show ‘A Point of View‘ by atheist Clive James. Its well worth listening to (it can be listened to here and downloaded here, although I don’t know how long for), but at one point he mentioned the transition from iconography to true-to-life: When the ...

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7 days ago by Mr Gnome

The peerless Clive James ended this year's series of Radio 4's A Point of View with a terrific essay. Fascinating that a 'non-believer' is so profoundly in touch with essential aspects of JC that some of his followers seem to miss. Click here to read.

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11 days ago by Mike

Clive James is probably one of the greatest living essayists, damn him. Every time I read him my inferiority complex takes a turn for the worse. His prose just flows across the page in a way that mine does in my dreams - in reality it lurches across like a camel on stilts. I mean, the man uses semi ...

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15 days ago by epicurienne

Splendid Becca did the unexpected: this afternoon she sent me a bottle of José Cuervo’s Margaritas with a stunning glass from which to consume this Christmas cocktail. Now, that’s what I call the incentive to drag me out of my pre-Christmas illness wallow-hollow and back into the festive spirit (no ...

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15 days ago by onparkstreet

“What completed my social amnesia, however, was Cultural Amnesia , James’s compendious collection of biographical essays on influential cultural and political figures, as well as more obscure subjects, like the young Nazi-resistor Sophie Scholl. Published in 2007, the book garnered some approving re ...

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19 days ago by Ian Woolcott

Any writer who finds the height of human absurdity outside himself must find the well-spring of human dignity inside, and so lose the world. ~ Clive James, Cultural Amnesia [Beware the deadly serious, the overly earnest, the self-important. Beware of them most of all in yourself. This applies to non ...

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19 days ago by WH

It's been a little while since I've done a "new books" round up, so here are a few to consider, possibly as last minute holiday gifts. Book Review: The Philosopher And The Wolf - Lessons in Love, Death, and Happiness by Mark Rowlands Written by Dan Schneider Published December 16, 2008 Philosopher M ...

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21 days ago by Tom Chatfield

Our most valuable living English-language writer? In our lead review this month, writer, blogger, poet, novelist and sometime musician Julian Gough pays tribute to the poetry and essays of Clive James—and talks to the man himself about the central role poetry has in his literary world. Few authors c ...

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23 days ago by Dick Madeley

One of the biggest regrets in my life is that my blog has not yet become a regular port of call for the nation's intelligentsia. Due to some mix up in the way that Yahoo! and Google categorise blogs, my Appreciation Society is rarely quoted in The Guardian's literary pages and it has yet to get a me ...

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