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Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:16 AM

Kingsley Amis

Type: Person
Name: Kingsley Amis
First Reported 49 mins ago - Updated 49 mins ago - 1 Documents
Martin Amis: sexual revolution killed my sister
Martin Amis has claimed that the sexual revolution played a pivotal part in the destruction of his sister Sally, who became 'one of its most spectacular victims'. Sally Amis on holiday in Greece. She failed to recover from the death of her father Photo: ... [Telegraph - 49 mins ago]
First Reported 11/14/2009 - Updated 11/14/2009 - 1 Documents
Alcohol by volume: A guide to perfectly pairing your beverage with your book
By Adam McDowell, National PostFor friends who own a muddler and know how to use it: Difford’s Encyclopedia of Cocktails (Firefly Books, $45), Galliano L’Autentico and Tanqueray London Dry Gin. Simon Difford, a London-based bartender with a cult following ... [National Post - 11/14/2009]
First Reported 11/15/2009 - Updated 11/15/2009 - 1 Documents
Mixing it well
WRITERS' WORLDBy Humra QuraishiWhat is me, a teetotaller, doing with this thick volume on drinks and drinking. Well, reviewing it from a dispassionate positing, so to say. Also, stands the fact that author Bhaichand Patel is Khushwant Singh's neighbour ... [The Week - 11/15/2009]
First Reported 10/22/2009 - Updated 10/22/2009 - 1 Documents
Anniversaries: Oct 22
EventsIn AD 451 the Council of Chalcedon drafted a creed defining Jesuss divinity. BirthsFranz Liszt, composer, 1811; Sarah Bernhardt, actress, 1844; Timothy Leary, psychologist and advocate of the use of LSD, 1920. DeathsHenry Richard Vassall Fox (3rd ... [Times Online - 10/22/2009]
First Reported 10/25/2009 - Updated 10/25/2009 - 1 Documents
UK award aims to halt slide in standards of writing
Ken Follett will help name stylish literary greats and shame pretentious windbags Britain prides itself on its great written tradition. From a global literary giant such as Shakespeare to the stylists of the modern age, like Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis ... [Observer - 10/25/2009]
First Reported 10/28/2009 - Updated 10/28/2009 - 1 Documents
Great Historical Questions to Which the Answer is No
 John Rentoul continually finds more examples of this species of journalistic inquiry than I do, largely owing to his formidable knowledge of the Daily Mail. But today The Times makes its own contribution, with a feature entitled "Tinker, tailor, soldier, ... [Oliver Kamm - 10/28/2009]
First Reported 10/30/2009 - Updated 10/30/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
Comment on Not So Great A Success by Mike G in Corvallis
I have a horrible suspicion that in 2019, after an Ares/Orion is lost, I’m going to be screaming Robert Conquest’s line to the heavens:I told you so, you fucking fools! ** Yes, I know it was Kingsley Amis who really said it. ... [Transterrestrial Musings - 10/30/2009]
First Reported 10/30/2009 - Updated 10/30/2009 - 1 Documents
Not So Great A Success
Apparently, in addition to the recontact after stage separation and tumbling second “stage,” the parachutes on the Corndog failed and damaged the cases of the first stage. But hey, what do you want for half a billion dollars? I mean, besides a whole new ... [Transterrestrial Musings - 10/30/2009]
First Reported 07/09/2009 - Updated 07/09/2009 - 1 Documents
Hell-Raising Black British MP Hides Son in Top Ghanaian School
Diane Abbott, the maverick Labour MP who horrified her fellow leftwingers in the party by sending her son to a private school, has enrolled him in a sixth form in Ghana so he can 'get in touch' with his African roots.James Thompson, 17, her son from a ... [AllAfrica.com - 07/09/2009]
First Reported 10/12/2009 - Updated 10/12/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Murder Most Mystifying
The detective novel is the most paradoxical yet enduringly popular literary formIt is true that people get murdered a bit in The Glass Key, wrote Kingsley Amis derisively of the most famous crime novel of Dashiell Hammett. Not enough, though.Detective ... [Times Online - 10/12/2009]
First Reported 10/13/2009 - Updated 10/13/2009 - 1 Documents
Tradition, writers and game at London's Rules
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - It's old, it's grand and the food is traditional English. Rules restaurant carries on a 200-year-old tradition celebrated by authors, actors, the wealthy and diners keen on seasonal game.Located at Covent Garden, the restaurant ... [Reuters UK - 10/13/2009]
First Reported 10/19/2009 - Updated 10/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Murder most mystifying
It is true that people get murdered a bit in The Glass Key,' wrote Kingsley Amis derisively of the most famous crime novel of Dashiell Hammett.'Not enough, though.'Detective fiction and its close cousin crime fiction have enduring popular appeal, and ... [Gulf Daily News - 10/19/2009]

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Martin Amis: sexual revolution killed my sister [Telegraph - 49 mins ago]
Mixing it well [The Week - 11/15/2009]
Alcohol by volume: A guide to perfectly pairing... [National Post - 11/14/2009]
'Contrary To Some Opinions, Nothing Went Wrong ... [Nigeria Guardian - 11/07/2009]
1950s' prudes For many wives, sex with their hu... [Mail Online UK - 11/02/2009]
No sex please, we're prudish: For many wives, i... [Mail Online UK - 11/02/2009]
Not So Great A Success [Transterrestrial Musings - 10/30/2009]
Comment on Not So Great A Success by Mike G in ... [Transterrestrial Musings - 10/30/2009]
UK award aims to halt slide in standards of wri... [Observer - 10/25/2009]
Citizenship ceremonies: A Brit of a do [Times Online - 10/24/2009]
Anniversaries: Oct 22 [Times Online - 10/22/2009]
British Journalist, Ludovic Kennedy, Dies at 89 [New York Times - 10/21/2009]
The Forgettable And The Overlooked In Lit Prizes [The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - 10/20/2009]
Murder most mystifying [Gulf Daily News - 10/19/2009]
Rudd, Ruddock and the deep, dark currents of fear [Crikey Media - 10/14/2009]
Tradition, writers and game at London's Rules [Reuters UK - 10/13/2009]
Murder Most Mystifying [Times Online - 10/12/2009]
Hell-Raising Black British MP Hides Son in Top ... [AllAfrica.com - 07/09/2009]
Regretting those words until your dying day [Telegraph - 07/03/2009]
Nick Cohen: How not to make a pig's ear out of ... [Observer - 05/08/2009]
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Great Historical Questions to Which the Answer ... [Oliver Kamm - 10/28/2009]
 John Rentoul continually finds more examples of this species of journalistic inquiry than I do, largely owing to his formidable knowledge of the Daily Mail. But ...
Writer's Choice Grand Index [normblog - 09/20/2009]
The Writer's Choice series features writers writing about books. It is now well into its fifth year, and I thought it could do with a single, unified index. I ...
In praise of… Billy Liar [Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 08/04/2009]
This newspaper's reviewer was not overwhelmed when Billy Liar was published, 50 years ago next month. Keith Waterhouse's second novel scored a single paragraph which ...
Student finance: University challenge [Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 07/29/2009]
The greatest domestic rebellion of Tony Blair's leadership came over his university top-up fee plan. Labour MPs thought it would throttle the hopes of poor youngsters, ...
What might have been [The Corner - 06/02/2009]
Now that America has embraced government car-making and the Administration is rumored to be considering the introduction of VAT, I have been reading up on Britain ...
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