Posts Tagged ‘Doris Lessing’
Women I Read: International Women’s Day
An International Women’s Day game: who would be on your list? One way to mark IWD: thinking about the women writers we read.
Read More1985
Jean Baird uploads her 1985 analysis, but she’s more interested in the machinations behind Canada Reads.
Read MoreBooker Prize, 1971
1971 Jury: John Fowles, Saul Bellow, Lady Antonia Fraser, Philip Toynbee and John Gross. I assume we all know the first three (how did they get rid of Dame West?) Philip Toynbee was a British writer and journalist. He wrote experimental novels, and distinctive verse novels, one of which was an epic called Pantaloon. He…
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