Gwendoline Riley broke boundaries when she came out with her sort of existentialist, prize-winning novel, Cold Water, at age 22. Cold Water is full of humor that is wry, dark, and dry, and narrated by a young woman working in a distinctly American-style bar in Manchester. Gwendoline Riley herself worked in such a Manchester bar and
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As part of my voracious reading as a teen, I enjoyed Somerset Maugham’s The Moon And Sixpence, loosely based upon the character of Paul Gauguin, in which an English painter removes himself to a remote Pacific island in his ruthless pursuit of creativity. I also read Thomas Mann’s Death In Venice, about a composer loosely
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November 19 2026 marks the 10th anniversary of the death, at age 84, of philosopher & novelist Umberto Eco. For a guy like me at least, Umberto Eco was a fun guy to be around with his amazingly encyclopedic mind, and flrehose delivery of information complete with extensive quotes from memory from a varied selection
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