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Edward Hibbert, known for his performance as Gil Chesterton on NBC's sitcom Frasier, was instrumental in bringing Fight Club to the big screen.
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Terrence Malick on Making Days of Heaven
In a 1979 interview, the American filmmaker speaks candidly about the production of his recent film
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Crossroads and Transgressions: Cormac McCarthy Between Worlds
Calling for Submissions to a conference at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies in Berlin
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Draff: Samuel Beckett Conference, TCD 2016
Calling for Submissions to a 2016 conference at Trinity College, Dublin
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A Love Supreme: Rare Photographs of John Coltrane
Chuck Stewart reveals rarely glimpsed images of Coltrane in the 1960s
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The Samuel Beckett Theatre Project Oxford
David Tucker uncovers plans for a subterranean theatre in the heart of Oxford
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Translating War and Peace
Rendering Russia’s literary masterpieces into English Orlando Figes Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have begun a quiet revolution in the translation of...
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Samuel Beckett Working Group, Stockholm 2016
Call for Papers Samuel Beckett Working Group Stockholm University, 13-17 June, 2016 The Samuel Beckett Working Group (SBWG) will be meeting at the FIRT/IFTR International Federation for Theatre...
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Thomas Bernhard on reading Dostoyevsky
Never in my whole life have I read a more engrossing and elemental work, and at the time I had never read such a long one. It had the effect of a powerful drug, and for a time I was totally absorbed by...
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Samuel Beckett: ‘Beginning of the murmur’
I am delighted to have an article included in the prestigious Beckett periodical, Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui . This most recent volume celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Beckett...
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Celebrating Roland Barthes at 100
New open-access journal launched to celebrate Roland Barthes’ centenary Introducing Barthes Studies Neil Badmington And lead us not into doxa… I have an uneasy feeling that Roland Barthes, were he...
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Maurice Blanchot Archive
Harvard acquires manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks and proofs by the post-war French writer and philosopher Maurice Blanchot Houghton Library has acquired the archive of French writer, literary...
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Samuel Beckett and Chess
Stephen Moss (The Guardian) traces Beckett’s lifelong fascination with the game Samuel Beckett Beckett had a lifelong interest in chess and was a keen player, following many of the big matches, says...
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Oliver Sacks, Gratitude
Just finished Oliver Sacks’ final collection of essays, Gratitude. Written in the last five years of his life, these short pieces form a fitting epilogue to his recent memoir, On the Move. Gratitude...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein on Twitter
The late great philosopher of logic and life makes an appearance on social media Ludwig Wittgenstein If you are looking for New Year’s inspiration, the austere Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein...
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Proust: In Search of Lost Cane
Proust loses his cane. And finds it again. #insearchoflostcane https://t.co/sxu63kXPZN — Rhys Tranter (@RhysTranter) January 22, 2016 Filed under: Biography & Memoir, Literature, Quotations,...
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