In case anyone here is interested, AP Soc President Simon Russell Beale is starring as George Smiley in John le Carre's The Karla Trilogy - "Tinker, Tailor,...
Can anyone ( I'm quite sure they can ) tell me who the aforementioned 'are supposed' to be ? I've seen that there is an answer -- speculative though it might...
I've been away for a while during a hectic term which included moving house, unexpected health problems, expected health problems, children changing schools, a...
As a new comer to this "group thingy", ( my name is Anthony Clifford, from Victoria, Australia )...I thought I'd start with something to raise hackles. Whilst...
Maybe people like Joe can answer this one. I was browsing through a book at the local Chapters store the other day about building bookcases all over the house....
People might like to know that I've today obtained a paperback copy of Afternoon Men [108 in the Sun & Moon Classics, L.A: 1997] from Bibliophile, an excellent...
Robert noted that ... A pity. I am fed up with unimaginative authors regurgitating AP titles, the latest being The Kindly Ones by a person called Littel. Only ...
First a letter to me from Jeff Manley: I'm waiting for your comments on the review I wrote for the latest APS Newsletter of the film Katyn. Be sure to read...
The Society's president, Simon Russell Beale, has managed to step out of the long shadow cast by Alec Guinness in the role of Smiley. All three radio episodes...
In the William Reese Co. (New Haven, Connecticut) catalogue 274 just received yesterday, is item 381: [Powell, Anthony]: Caledonia; A Fragment Being Lines...
Thanks for this, Joe. ... Would an academic institution be breaching copyright if it made a digital copy of a novel? I seem to recall explicit prohibitions on ...
The Google scan is not fully digitized, I think, because the appearance of the page is exactly that of the Chicago edition. For what it's worth, I just went...
Thanks to Robin Bynoe for the excellent article in the latest APS Newsletter comparing DJ Taylor's use of contemporary music allusions in his novels to AP's...
Here is what Google has to say: 'Many of the books in Google Books come from authors and publishers who participate in our Partner Program. For these books,...
This charter is posted every few weeks in order to help newcomers. *** If you wish to leave this group, you can do so by sending *** *** a blank email to...
Reminder from: aplist Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aplist/cal Powell Wedding Anniversary Tuesday December 1, 2009 All Day (This event repeats...
Current Private Eye book review refers at decent length to Powell`s impression of T.S. Eliot from Faces In My Time. Powell was on holiday in Devon in 1945...
In the current edition of The Washington Lawyer, the magazine of the District of Columbia Bar, Jake Stein quotes at length AP's description of Dickie...
Another reminder, this time for the London Group AP Birthday Lunch. All welcome, you just have to tell me you're coming so we ensure we have a large enough...
Apologies if this is old news on the iist. I was watching <I>Scrum V</I>, a television show that is a sort of news round up for Welsh rugby. They did a...
The Daily Telegraph's review of the new edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature includes the following: 'Oddly we are advised how to pronounce...
This coming Monday, 21 December, is AP's 93rd birthday. All here are invited to join me in a toast to the great man! Cheers, Keith ... Anthony Powell E-mail...
The meeting I earlier announced did take place last night (Mon. the 9th) and a good time was had by all. About 15 people turned up at the venerable Union...
On the Yahoo Proust Group, Patrick Alexander, whose Powell-Proust analogies have been referred to previously on this list, has written (November 9), in...
This is an alert to any AP folks who are in the Boston area: The Boston Athenaeum DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME discussion group will be meeting this Monday,...
Jeffrey Manley writes that Roberta Payne is "one of the few memorable female characters AP created." I agree that Roberta is very memorable and also an...
The Albany Institute of History & Art Book Fair takes place on Sunday, Nov. 8. A selection of Powell and Powelliana will be offered by The Book Shed. Details...
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