Clive James
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Certainly they don't have anything to do with his prose, which would be unreadable if it were not so riveting. From that strange anomaly, I deduce that it's his ability to 'tell a story' that pulls in the customers.
Having read The Da Vinci Code with close attention to its sales figures, I have a great belief in Dan Brown's attractions as a writer. The belief is all the greater because I can't quite define what those attractions are.
This growth is contrary to the prediction of critics, who in 1996 prematurely declared that biotech crops were only for industrial countriesMore quotes »
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'Unprecedented access' documentary of Salinger's life arriving this September
Unlike “The Great Gatsby,” which has been adapted to film so frequently and forgettably (Luhrmann’s most recent attempt included – his Cannes request of asking to be judged by box office revenue rather than artistic merit brings to mind Clive James’ wry 5/21/13 from New York Daily News Read more »
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Joan Acocella: Dante in translation and in Dan Brown’s “Inferno.”
People can’t seem to let go of the Divine Comedy. You’d think that a fourteenth-century allegorical poem on sin and redemption, written in a medieval Italian vernacular and in accord with the Scholastic theology of that period, would have been turned ove from The New Yorker Read more »
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Dante Alighieri
A quintet celebrating The Divine Comedy author's wickedly rich poetics. The Divine Comedy: A New Verse Translation By Clive James The phrase "compulsively readable" is not usually associated with Dante's ecclesiastical epic, but this ambitious, barefaced from Barnes & Noble Review Read more »
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Clive James on Dan Brown: 'I pity him deeply'
Clive James released a new translation of Dante's 'Divine Comedy' in April.(Photo: W.W. Norton) Last month, Clive James, a poet, critic and literary gadfly in Britain, published his long-awaited (and well-reviewed) translation of Dante's The Divine Comed from USA Today Read more »
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Clive James's and His Ignorant Comment
Hopefully that headline got your attention. But seriously, check out this bit from the By the Book feature that appeared in the New York Times this weekend: Are you a rereader? What books do you find yourself returning to again and again? I don’t do much from Three Percent Read more »
