Showing posts with label AUTHOR P. G. Wodehouse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AUTHOR P. G. Wodehouse. Show all posts
27 September 2020

More on Christie and Wodehouse

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After posting about the possible influence of P. G. Wodehouse on Agatha Christie, I got a hold of Christie’s autobiography to see if it h...
08 September 2020

A Scarecrow in Wodehouse

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“The Aunt and the Sluggard,” one of P. G. Wodehouse’s earliest stories about Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, turns out to have an Oz connectio...
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07 September 2020

Did Wodehouse Influence Christie?

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles made me wonder if Agatha Christie’s portrayal of the relationship between Capt. Arthur Hastings and Hercu...
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01 September 2020

Captain Hastings’s True Worth

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In the end, after the drawing-room revelations that the publisher demanded, I enjoyed Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles m...
09 May 2013

The Tie That Binds

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Speaking of British publishing’s fanfiction , this autumn will bring the first authorized revival of P. G. Wodehouse ’s Jeeves and Bertie ...
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02 February 2013

Wodehouse v. Milne

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The Paris Review ’s blog recently looked back on the falling-out between P. G. Wodehouse and A. A. Milne . I’d read versions of this sto...
22 October 2012

Lemony Fish

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Yesterday the Boston Globe ran an  interview with Daniel Handler , representative of Lemony Snicket , which included this exchange about ...
26 February 2011

“There Were a Lot of Them and They Were All 10”

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Earlier this month Prof. Carlo Rotella of Boston College wrote in the Boston Globe about doing an elementary-school visit : Recently I visi...
29 December 2010

An Early Effort by Wodehouse

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This month I read P. G. Wodehouse’s The Intrusion of Jimmy (1910) for the first time. I may have read it earlier under its alternate title...
08 April 2008

Two Years of Bully's Life

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Among the things I can't presently do because my commute usually runs from my bedroom to my desk downstairs is to read lots of books whi...
11 April 2007

Rookie Author

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Adam Gopnik’s essay “The Rookie,” originally published in The New Yorker and reprinted in his 2003 book Paris to the Moon , is one of the f...
24 March 2007

Now We're Talking

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Bookshelves of Doom’s T-shirt of the week : Our first glimpse of Rupert Psmith in P. G. Wodehouse’s public-school novel Mike and Psmith : A ...
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12 June 2006

How to train your metaphors

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After taking in an audiobook of How to Train Your Dragon , by Cressida Cowell ( already optioned by DreamWorks, apparently because it'...