Monday, July 24, 2006

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!!!See the Strange Thing!!!! Due to public demand the 'Strange Thing' will be at the museum for another month until August 24th. Cor...
Sunday, July 02, 2006

Germaine Greer at Hull Truck Theatre

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‘This is a literary festival, right? Let’s talk about Shakespeare!’

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No one else but Germaine Greer could confound audience expectations at a literature festival by insisting upon talking about literature. And...

George Galloway at Hull Truck Theatre

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Respect

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Chatting to punters outside Hull Truck during the interval , questions were raised about Galloway’s conspicuous love of theatricality and hi...
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Thursday, June 29, 2006

Ian Duhig chatting to David Wheatley at Zest

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The Price of Fish

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Although most of us have grown embarrassed by racism, sexism, homophobia and all the other violent exclusions which reveal the sacrificial l...
Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Louis de Bernieres at Hull Central Library

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Louis de Bernieres & Ilone Antonius Jones

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More coming soon...
Sunday, June 25, 2006

Susie Orbach at Zest

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The Body Beautiful?

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In an age saturated in advertising, and hopelessly obsessed with fame, Susie Orbach is an opponent of conformity. With her viewpoints formed...
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Al Alvarez at Central Library

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'It aint over until you've copulated with the camel....'

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You can call me Al To see Al Alvarez, who, I'm ashamed to admit, I knew little about in advance of sitting 12ft away. He was a funny old...
Friday, June 23, 2006

John Pilger at the Ferens Gallery

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'The best audience...the best questions'

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Forgive me for not being an absolute authority on John Pilger (I'm still ploughing through 'Hidden Agendas'). That's not the...
Thursday, June 22, 2006

Jonathan Coe at Pave

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'We're all going to die...but first we're going to rot'

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These were the immortal words of BS Johnson, the avant-garde novelist whose insight into the human condition was so raw, brilliant and painf...
Monday, June 19, 2006

Lionel Shriver at Zest

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Sunday, June 18, 2006

Aspects of evil

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AS a novelist who says she loves an argument, Lionel Shriver cannot have been disappointed by the reaction to We Need to Talk About Kevin. T...
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Sumo wrestling with the greats

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LATE evening, and Marcel Proust and William Burroughs are deep into a sumo wrestling match. Well, paper versions of them to be exact. It is ...