With one-liners to rival Oscar Wilde or Mae West, she showed that satirical language can be soft and silly as well as wry and sharp. She will be missedVictoria Wood was an expert at encouraging us to lampoon language. Her forensically crafted writing was a warm, open invitation to point and laugh at the one thing above all else that makes us human: words.More specifically, the northern dialect of the English language. Lucy Mangan wrote about how her characters called their magazines “books” – idiosyncratically northern. Wood gave voice to something that characterises many of her delicious personas: a campness, in the Susan Sontag sense of the word. Her acute eye resulted in writing that was both well observed and ridiculous. Bringing out the camp in the northern housewife was oxymoronic: it added a linguistic layer of glamour to her downtrodden identity. This won her legions of devoted gay fans, including me. It blazed a trail for the comedy that could soften the Corrie matriarch. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Hanley Wood, the D.C.-based B2B media company serving the real estate, residential design and construction sectors, laid off several employees last week and implemented salary reductions for others, multiple sources tell Folio:. A Hanley Wood rep declined to provide details, but confirmed the... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-05-19 13:43:21 UTC ]
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Natalie Wood's daughter, actress Natasha Gregson Wagner, has written a memoir of life with the legend and produced an HBO documentary about her career. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-05-05 15:00:49 UTC ]
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In her memoir “More Than Love,” Natasha Gregson Wagner delivers a poignant look at a complicated relationship and a tantalizing foray into “What if?” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-05 11:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins is launching an e-book subscription service called We Love Romance, providing unlimited access to thousands of Mills & Boon titles. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-30 01:34:32 UTC ]
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On this episode of Sheltering, Nina Renata Aron speaks with Maris Kreizman about her new book, Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls, a memoir of codependency. They talk about the cultural history of love and its entanglement with suffering, particularly for women, and how hard it is to break... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-04-27 19:00:44 UTC ]
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Book Reviews Natalia Lomaia Left: Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal in Normal People (2020) / Courtesy of IMDB Sally Rooney’s 2018 novel is a meticulous observation, or even a study, of how one human being can have immense, intense power over another.... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2020-04-23 13:18:03 UTC ]
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Crime writer and police psychologist Dr Emma Kavanagh is embarking on a study on what love means to a psychopath for her non-fiction debut with Trapeze. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-21 23:37:45 UTC ]
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Contrary to what you might read elsewhere, there are three stages to a pandemic. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-17 07:22:01 UTC ]
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‘The Orange-and-White-Heeled Shoes’ looks at a shared moment between mother and daughter Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-04-16 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Owen Nicholls’ debut novel is chock-full of movie references, but he delves deeply into the intricacies of maintaining a relationship. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-04-15 22:39:46 UTC ]
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Owen Nicholls’ debut novel is chock-full of movie references, but he delves deeply into the intricacies of maintaining a relationship. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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Owen Nicholls’ debut novel is chock-full of movie references, but he delves deeply into the intricacies of maintaining a relationship. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-04-15 22:39:46 UTC ]
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Walker and Candlewick are to publish Will You Be My Friend?, a sequel to the bestselling children's book Guess How Much I Love You. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-07 14:27:02 UTC ]
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Seven Dials has won world rights at auction to Lost Without You, a book from the footballer turned actor Vinnie Jones about coping with the loss of his wife, Tanya, after her six-year battle with cancer. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-02 12:09:30 UTC ]
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This wide-ranging volume celebrates our fascination with the residences of literary figures, artists, composers and politicians Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-04-01 16:03:00 UTC ]
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The prodigious Anthony Horowitz has three books slated for 2020, each of which is packed with the writer’s trademark plot twists and hidden messages Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-27 06:53:44 UTC ]
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TFW you didn't love the debut novel and are completely taken by surprise when you fall head over heels for that same author's second book. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2020-03-19 10:35:57 UTC ]
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The creators of Humanoids’ new graphic novel ‘Omni: The Doctor Is In’, a hybrid medical mystery/paranormal thriller, talk with PW about creating a contemporary black female genius superhero. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling indie writer on why the reader remains king, dabbling with the Big Five and taking creative control Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-12 21:11:30 UTC ]
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