Polyphonic Can-Can
I’ve just published an interview with my pal Katy Evans-Bush, who you’ll probably know as the author of the Baroque in Hackney blog. She’s got some good stuff to say for herself, so go and take a look.
Published on 8th December, 2008
J.K. Fucking Rowling
The best analysis to date on Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling’s £1m donation to the Labour Party definitely comes from Scott Pack:
Gordon Brown has welcomed the donation and proclaimed Rowling ‘one of the world’s greatest ever authors’.
Move aside Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens, Virgil, Dostoyevsky, the Brontes, Fitzgerald, Hardy, Chaucer and [insert your favourite here] - JK Rowling has surpassed you all.
Most popular I would probably grant her, but greatest ever?
I would politely suggest that the Prime Minister’s literary judgement has been clouded somewhat by the huge fucking cheque he has just received from the author. I presume Jeffrey Archer has thrown loads of money at the Conservative Party over the years but I am pretty sure no one there has ever made such high claims about him. Quite sensible really, what with him being a bit shit.
In other news, I’m reading this at the moment. Highly recommended.
Published on 20th September, 2008
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