This is really odd. On the first day of each month I usually publish an index of the previous month's blogs and for some reason the April Index this year attracted a monstrous cohort of readers. I have no idea why. But here it is, my second most-read blog ever, and a link to thirty other blogs. Tomorrow's blog will re-cycle my single most popular blog over the past three years - and it's quite a surprise.
Sunday, 1 May 2016
April index
As is customary on the first of the month I offer an index to the previous month's blogs, on the assumption that you may not have read all, or most, or even any of them. I hate to think of you missing out, and feeling bitter about it.
I shall never tire of describing the monthly index as 'a veritable smorgasbord'. So here it is: a veritable smorgasbord. Click on each title for a link back to the original blog. What larks!
I shall never tire of describing the monthly index as 'a veritable smorgasbord'. So here it is: a veritable smorgasbord. Click on each title for a link back to the original blog. What larks!
- 01 March index - an earlier veritable smorgasbord
- 02 Country matters - an encounter with Donald Swann
- 03 W. H. Smith's Fresh Talent 2016 - reflections on the promotion of mainstream novels
- 04 Mr Toomey takes on the Nazis - Anthony Burgess and Earthly Powers
- 05 Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets - how many versions of the Bible are there?
- 06 Alun Lewis on my home town- an uncollected poem by a great poet
- 07 Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson - goings-on in Iceland and the Panama Papers
- 08 Transport for London's vision of the future - bilious reflections on goals and dreams
- 09 99 novels - Anthony Burgess again, on key novels 1939-1983
- 10 33 novels - I pick up where Burgess left off, with key novels between 1983 and 2015
- 11 The Bony King of Nowhere - a lovely song, and memories of Bagpuss
- 12 Mark E. Smith und Bruno Ganz - and a fine poem by Andrew Elliot
- 13 On Odilon Redon and Guy Maddin - two favourites, together at last
- 14 Falling into Nastiness - Jonathan Swift's 17 Resolutions for old age
- 15 On Kenneth Allott - a fine poem form a neglected poet, and a discovery
- 16 On Raymond Devos - a very odd fish
- 17 'Deep joy' : Stanley Unwin - the entertainer remembered
- 18 Cisgenderism and the Beats - on Robert McCrum's 100 greatest novels in English
- 19 Political booklists - what do politicians read? Or claim to read?
- 20 On deodorants - why are there so few?
- 21 On 'grammar snobs' - a response to Mona Chalabi
- 22 The Curse of Celebrity - a Prince, among men
- 23 On James Patterson, authors - the writer as a brand
- 24 An American on Paris - the latest novel by the world's most popular author
- 25 The Habit of Art - Alan Bennett's 2011 play, belatedly reviewed
- 26 On L. T. C. Rolt and the Talyllyn Railway - engineer, author, visionary
- 27 Beckett list - unscripted insults in En attendant Godot
- 28 Salman Rushdie and Geoffrey Archer - twin titans; terrible titles
- 29 Experiments with severed heads - sorry about this
- 30 Dodge Rose by Jack Cox (revisited) - a brilliant debut
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