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Seán Costello

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Le chagrin… Françoise Hardy, RIP

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A novel of muffled motivations, appetising tension, and the introduction of the toasted cheese sandwich to Ireland’s pubs. Me on Long Island, “a masterclass in everything Colm Tóibín can do”.

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Thank you! Love it when the cow parsley comes out.

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Flann O'Brien nicely acknowledged Graham Greene, an early champion of his work, in his dedication to The Hard Life

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Jeeves is back, on a road trip in present-day New Jersey and upstate New York… Finding this a hoot so far.

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Somehow I feel he would have relished this typo

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“Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.” -- The Invention of Solitude (1982) I wrote an obituary for Paul Auster:

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Among my fondest reading memories is working my way through Paul Auster’s novels when I was 19 or 20 years old - in those Faber editions with the blue spines. The Trilogy, Music of Chance, Leviathan, Moon Palace. They had a profound impact on my sensibility and remain a key influence. RIP.

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That’s great to hear — it’s an excellent festival and I’m sure you’ll enjoy York. Is your event the one chaired by Gavin Esler on 9 June? (Your name doesn’t appear on the festival website, as far as I can see.)

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“Now I have taken a closer look at my desk and realised that nothing good can be done on it.” #writing

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He’s a great raconteur. Really hope we’ll see a memoir at some point, though he’s clearly still fully occupied with core PSB business.

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Thanks, have heard it – like eavesdropping on a bunch of mates reminiscing, but in a good way.

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“We are a bit like two halves of one brain,” says Neil Tennant of his forty-year collaboration with Chris Lowe. That, and a bit like a veteran comedy duo in this engaging and entertaining documentary. Highly recommended.

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“You’d think I would have learned by now – when you’re in love with a married man, you shouldn’t wear mascara.” Shirley MacLaine, born #OTD in 1934

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Don’t mind the April showers; the February temperatures not so much.

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“I think that there’s honestly a direct line between me seeing Hollywood Shuffle, and me being drawn to the novel Erasure and making American Fiction.”—Cord Jefferson in an excellent conversation with Hollywood Shuffle director Robert Townsend

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“I don’t want to be Eddie Murphy. I just want to be me.” Before American Fiction, there was Hollywood Shuffle… Revisited this still very funny satire from way back.

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The rating of Spinal Tab on IMDB actually goes to 11 🤣

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“You buy a ticket and get on a train. That's all you have to do.” Happy birthday, Julie Christie, born #OTD in 1940

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“He was a dilettante. He did not like the structure of a screenplay, wasn’t used to it. He was a mess but he could write a beautiful sentence.”—Billy Wilder on working with Raymond Chandler

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Watched In A Lonely Place (1950) this evening. An incredibly insightful, powerful film about violence in the trappings of a conventional noir, I can’t recommend it highly enough. No surprise given that it’s based on a Dorothy B Hughes book, she of The Expendable Man. boxd.it/6gQQwT

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More trademark brevity from Samuel Beckett, as recalled by Seamus Heaney

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“Bon qu’a ça.” (“That’s all I’m good for.”) In 1985 Libération asked 400 authors why they wrote. The pithiest response was from Samuel Beckett, born #OTD in 1906

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