Archive for June, 2009


Talking Damages with Jenny Diski

When I mentioned at Facebook this spring that that I was gearing up to start into Damages, writer and LRB critic Jenny Diski urged me to stockpile food beforehand. It was good advice. The Maud household barely stirred from the couch for two consecutive weekends. Normally we’d be well into Season Two by now, but the DVDs aren’t out yet, . . .

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Ahead for Granta

John Freeman reveals three upcoming Granta themes — work, sex, & Chicago — and says an excerpt from Rupert Thomson’s memoir is in Issue 107.

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