2/18/2024 0 Comments Drakengard 3 five death“We’re all going to lose people at some point. ‘It would be like seeing a bunch of young guys in hoodies playing opera.’” ‘Young guys who looked cool just didn’t play this kind of music,’ she recalls. Here it was being soaked in whiskey and doused with flames. Jonze writes: “Clarke had grown up in West Cork where traditional Irish music was treated with reverence and respect. The journalist and author hands over a vivid tumble of memories from 40 years with the frontman of iconoclastic Celtic punk band the Pogues (whom she first remembers encountering as the group’s “capable one”). Tim Jonze’s interview with Victoria Mary Clarke, done just a couple of weeks after the death of her husband Shane MacGowan, is really nice. Shane MacGowan and his wife, Victoria Mary Clarke. Love after death: remembering Shane MacGowan How long will it take to read: about four minutes 3. As well as scouring the platform to get a feel for tastes and trends, publishers frequently send out advance copies to users, hoping to generate buzz with online reviews. Why does Goodreads have so much industry clout? As Smith explains, it allows reviews of unpublished titles. This week, David Smith asks if the book review site, which claims to be the world’s biggest for readers and recommendations, has at last become too unpleasant. (She posted an apology on Instagram, attributing her actions in part to struggles with mental health and substance abuse.) Photograph: Daphne Pressĭecember’s literary scandal was brought to you by Cait Corrain, a debut author who used fake accounts to “review bomb” her perceived rivals on Goodreads, getting her own book deal cancelled in the process. OnlyEnemies (or: if you’re an author, don’t look at Goodreads)Ĭait Corrain, a debut author, used fake accounts to ‘review bomb’ her perceived rivals. How long will it take to read: about eight minutesįurther reading: You can find our full coverage of the Israel-Gaza war here, including news, analysis and a range of perspectives. But in another way, as a European, I am very much implicated in what’s happening.” There’s a part of me that wants to say I should stay silent and leave these conversations to people who know better. But I don’t believe we can afford to despair, nor do I think despair is ethical.”įrom Sally Rooney: “One of my instincts … is to acknowledge my own position as an ‘outsider’ to all of this. Basically, it’s easy to feel useless, and from there it’s a short leap to despair. Their 10,000-word exchange – unpacking both their personal responses and the role of art more generally in times of catastrophe – is condensed here.Īlso covered: the changing place of international law, Irish solidarity with Palestinians, and what happens after you see the unseeable.įrom Isabella Hammad: “I wonder if the question is partly a way of expressing horror not only at the sheer tremendousness of this violence, which is being enacted on an industrial scale … but also at the way violence can make art-making seem quite futile and feeble, something easily crushed. Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty ImagesĪround the middle of November, and into December, these two novelists wrote back and forth as the crisis in Gaza continued. Smoke over the northern Gaza Strip following an Israeli strike in October.
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