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Justin Cartwright
Justin Cartwright
British Novelist
Born: 1945
Book Books Life People World You
Related authors: Anne Bronte Charles Morgan Charlotte Bronte Hector Hugh Munro Helen Oyeyemi Jeanette Winterson Roald Dahl Zadie Smith
DeLillo has said that he no longer feels a compulsion to write long, compendious books. In his later years, Saul Bellow said something similar. DeLillo, of course, has written very long in the past, notably with the 850-page Underworld (1997), and his story has been America. Justin Cartwright
Long Past Books Later Has-Been Similar Something Compulsion Write He Written Longer Feels Course Said Been His Underworld Years Very America In The Past Story Saul
Homer Collyer's chosen form of self-expression is the piano, although late in life, when his hearing also goes, he takes to writing. Justin Cartwright
Life Writing Late Piano He Takes Also Self-Expression Although His Hearing Goes Form Chosen Homer
Personally, I have detested Gordon Brown since the moment in 2001 when he tried to make cheap capital out of the Laura Spence affair; as his troubles have piled up, I have felt no sympathy for him at all. Justin Cartwright
Sympathy Out Laura Tried Brown Detested Troubles Cheap He Since Make Gordon Him Felt Piled Affair His Up Personally Capital Moment
There was loose talk of Enron management practices and reminders of a scandal at the University of Toronto, when a big donor corporation, Eli Lilly, was said to have vetoed the appointment of an academic who doubted the effectiveness of Prozac. Justin Cartwright
Management Big Corporation Enron Scandal Toronto Reminders Academic Talk Practices Loose Said Effectiveness Prozac Donor Doubted Who Appointment University
The Bodleian Library, next to the Sheldonian, is one of the great libraries of the world. As well as holding most of the books printed in England since the first quarter of the 17th century, it houses priceless printed texts, manuscripts, and collections. Justin Cartwright
Great Library World First Holding Books Libraries Collections Priceless Since Most Well Houses Printed Quarter Texts Century Next England Manuscripts
'The Infinities' is a shortish book but densely loaded with Nabokovian slyness, gorgeous imagery, and disturbing insights into what it means to be mortal. Justin Cartwright
Book Gorgeous Insights Disturbing Mortal Means Imagery Loaded
It's a strange failure of the literary world that Updike never quite received his due. Despite winning two Pulitzers and two National Book Awards and countless other awards and honours, he was denied the Nobel. Justin Cartwright
Failure Strange Book World National Other Despite Honours Winning Never He Nobel Countless Due His Denied Quite Literary Awards Received Two
Advertising, the product of capitalism, can only justify itself on the premise that the market is a force for good. Justin Cartwright
Good Capitalism Market Only Advertising Force Itself Justify Product Premise
'Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising' by Winston Fletcher - the impression you get from reading this book, which covers post-war advertising until the present, is of a chaotic, self-serving, occasionally brilliant but ultimately shallow business. Justin Cartwright
You Business Book Brilliant Reading Chaotic Post-War Shallow Winston Until Powers Advertising Occasionally Self-Serving Covers Ultimately Impression Get Story Which Persuasion Present British
Germany led the world in photography and film: 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' and 'Metropolis' are works that, to this day, film buffs revere. Justin Cartwright
Day Photography World Cabinet Revere Led Metropolis Germany Works Film Dr
Great architects like Taut, Mendelsohn, and Gropius built some astonishing buildings which were to change the way architects around the world thought. Brecht and Weill forever changed musical theatre; Kaethe Kollwitz and others changed German perceptions of the purposes of art. Justin Cartwright
Art Great Change Theatre World Thought Changed Others Musical Astonishing Way Musical Theatre Some Architects Perceptions Purposes Like Around Buildings Built Were German Forever Which
For novelists, sharply drawn moral conflicts are often useful, and even human and personal disasters can be seen as material. Justin Cartwright
Seen Drawn Moral Sharply Disasters Material Personal Often Human Conflicts Useful Even Novelists
It is true that it is usually for their books that novelists reserve their most considered and ordered thoughts, but the fact is they arise inescapably from one consciousness: the same one that is occupied in all the other activities which make up a life. Justin Cartwright
Life Thoughts Other Books Considered Fact Arise True Most Make Make Up Occupied Up Same Ordered Which Novelists Reserve Activities Consciousness
It is a commonplace to say that novelists should be judged by their work rather than their private lives or their publicly expressed views. And writers, of course, subscribe enthusiastically to this idea. Justin Cartwright
Work Subscribe Say Enthusiastically Rather Writers Idea Judged Course Private Private Lives Than Commonplace Should Views Novelists Expressed Publicly Lives
I thought that, post-apartheid, there would be absolutely no interest in South Africa. That has been both true and untrue. The major writers like Gordimer and Coetzee have produced major books. But some of the more minor writers have drifted away. Justin Cartwright
Thought South Africa Books Has-Been Would Would-Be Minor Some No Interest Drifted More Both Absolutely Writers True Major Like Untrue Been South Africa Interest Produced Away
If I was at home, I'd find myself checking email and looking at the Internet when I should be working. In the library, I can get an awful lot done in a couple of hours, but it can become quite sociable, which you have to watch out for. There are a lot of people you can pop out and have a coffee with. Justin Cartwright
Myself Home You Library People Internet Coffee Looking Become Email Out Find Checking Hours Couple Lot Get Done Quite Which Sociable Pop Should Working Awful Awful Lot Watch
This Oscar Pistorius business is interesting. There is this cult of carrying lots of guns and being ready to shoot somebody. There were people I knew had guns and carried them openly around Johannesburg. It is frowned on now to carry a gun, but Pistorius and co. got away with it. Justin Cartwright
Business People Gun Somebody Carried Carry Carrying Johannesburg Guns Had Knew Openly Around Ready Got Cult Were Lots Shoot Being Frowned Interesting Them Now Away Oscar
I was lucky to get to Oxford. I am now an honorary fellow of my old college, which is nice, particularly for a colonial like me. Justin Cartwright
Me Old College Nice Honorary Colonial Like Particularly Fellow Am Get Oxford Which Lucky Now
There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - it's a life. Being a writer, an artist... is a whole life. Justin Cartwright
Life Art You Painting Writer Idea Retiring Artist Bankers Being Whole Dabble
When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 88, she was the oldest person ever to receive the prize and one of only 11 female winners in its history. Her award was the end of a very long journey from a remote farm in Rhodesia to a banquet at Stockholm's Stadshus, the grand city hall in Stockholm. Justin Cartwright
Journey History Age Long Farm City City Hall Only Winners Long Journey Nobel Nobel Prize Remote She Hall Female End Won Very Stockholm Prize Person Banquet Grand Literature Award Ever Oldest Her Receive
The working-class Africans are not doing very well, and one of the problems is their education is so shocking. It is routinely said it is a result of apartheid. Deliberately, black people were not allowed to know too much. They could read and write a bit to be useful, but that's about it. Justin Cartwright
Education People Result Problems Too Much Black Too Bit One Of The Problems About Deliberately Could Write Allowed Know Well Read Said Doing Were Very Shocking African Apartheid Much Useful Working-Class
My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not far from Prague, and exterminated in Auschwitz by the Nazis. The Ginz family were from more or less the same milieu as the Kafkas. Justin Cartwright
Family Writing Own About My Own More More Or Less Boy Prague Came Were Auschwitz Article Same Interest Far Kafka Held Milieu Less Peter Novelist Letter
In his later years, Ramakrishna took up residence at the Dakshineswar Kali Temple, from where his radiance extended far, even beyond his death in 1886. Justin Cartwright
Death Took Later Temple Beyond His Years Up Where Far Radiance Even Residence Extended
I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by the time he was 22. I think 'Pigeon Feathers' was the first collection of stories I read. Only much later did I discover his non-fiction reviewing and art criticism. Justin Cartwright
Art Time Feathers Remember Criticism First Reading Think Later Collection Find Only Had He Pigeon Read Non-Fiction Discover His Reviewing Up Did Short Being Grew Stories Short Stories Much Published By The Time
A connection between poetry and blindness is a classical trope. Justin Cartwright
Classical Poetry Between Blindness Connection
I thought I'd write a massive postmodern novel about Richard the Lionheart and Robin Hood, but it turns out they couldn't have met because the first mention of Robin Hood appears 60 years after Richard died. Justin Cartwright
Thought First Met Hood Out Postmodern About Mention Write Massive Robin Robin Hood Because Years Died After Richard Turns Novel Appears
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