This quote has appeared in my head, and I can't for the life of me think of the book it comes from. It goes something like, "All my life I've been making...
SAT 6 NOV 4PM (15) CURZON SOHO TICKETS £6/£5 CONCESSION Bryan Stanley Johnson was a gifted and prolific novelist, poet, playwright and film-maker, whom...
Apologies to all for the occasional rogue spam message on the group. I am monitoring these and immediately banning any members who spam the group and also...
I won't be going to the screening on Saturday, because I saw all those films at the ICA back in 1999 when The Unfortunates was reissued. They are all well...
Anniversary Reminder from the Calendar of bsjohnson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bsjohnson/cal Anniversary of B.S. Johnson's death (1973) Saturday November...
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It really was pretty irritating that the Curzon Soho screening if the Johnson docs only got flagged up a few days ahead of time. I'd have gone if I'd been able...
Apologies to all for not posting the BS Johnson film tribute info early enough. I did get the info about a week before I posted it, but, the site being a...
Hi, Just to be really late, I was talking briefly on Mark Radcliffe's show on Radio 2 last Wednesday about the Coe book. It can be streamed off the BBC site...
Jules - Many thanks for the information, and I well understand the difficulties of running the site, so special thanks for all your hard work and the...
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Nov 15, 2004 8:45 am
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Dear Julian I don't know if this is of interest, but I am appearing on A Good Read on Radio 4 in the New Year, and I have, as they say, chosen as my book...
David Quantick
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Dec 9, 2004 11:26 am
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Can anyone recommend a book or article where Johnson writes about his heroes Beckett, Joyce and Sterne? The Coe biography mentions that they were his literary...
David Briggs
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Jan 4, 2005 4:02 pm
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David The introduction to Arent You Rather Young to be Writing Your Memoirs? is the best strting point Colin Wiles ... From: "David Briggs"...
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Jan 4, 2005 8:10 pm
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Hello from the Canadian Arctic! I believe there is also an article on the site that reviews a Beckett play --from Scene magazine. Cheers, james ... ...
... Thanks James! I'll look that up. I already found the intro to 'Aren't you a Little Young...' on the site, so thanks to Colin for that. Dave Briggs ...
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Jan 5, 2005 1:28 pm
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On Jan 25th on Radio 4, A Good Read will feature as one of its books Christy Malry. I will be failing to persuade Jo Brand and Sue MacGregor of its merits....
David Quantick
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Jan 5, 2005 4:58 pm
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Hi Can anyone help me with the number of the house in Claremont Square where BSJ lived when writing Albert Angelo - from which he looked out onto the square? ...
Jo Brand said that she didn't understand the use of "The Shrike" as the name of Christie's girlfriend. But the text itself remarks that the name will be "too ...
I know I've asked this a long time ago, but I wonder again if anyone knows of Iain Sinclair's opinion of Johnson? They have Michael Moorcock as a friend in ...
Now available on the site are excerpts from two recent BBC Radio programmes featuring B.S. Johnson. The first, broadcast on 10 June 2004 is from Night Waves,...
David Just listened to A Good Read - congratulations on a brave choice! I think you made a very good case for reading the book, even though Sue and Jo didn't...
Too obscure for me Jonathan - finally enlightened by A Good Read, though I always thought it sounded like a type of bird ... ... http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com...
I'm very pleased to be able to tell that I this week got an article in Denmarks "Weekendavisen" (the news paper with the most important book and culture pages...
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Jan 31, 2005 7:20 pm
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The Shrike is the "butcher bird" - from memory it impales its prey on thorns to eat later. Not quite sure what relevance this has to Christie's girlfriend. ......
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Feb 1, 2005 10:26 pm
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I wondered if this was a class-based jibe by Johnson. His middle and upper-class readers would not think that "butcher bird" is a literal (colloquial) ...
I don't know about class-based. When I was a lad in the 1960s, "bird" was a pretty well-known expression and not at all obscure (cf TV series The Liver Birds)....
There was a hit record by Mike Sarne, which had the chorus 'There's one thing that I like, it's a bird up on my bike'. In other words, a girl riding pillion on...
Margaret Walker
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Feb 4, 2005 3:12 pm
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Forgive the slightly off-topic post but I've not been on the list long. Anyhow, fans of BSJ might be interested in this piece on 3:AM Magazine, which is...
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Feb 4, 2005 3:40 pm
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Anniversary Reminder from the Calendar of bsjohnson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bsjohnson/cal B.S. Johnson's Birthday (1933) Saturday February 5, 2005 All...
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