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May 22 2008 by Caroline Innes, Liverpool Echo LITTER-BUGGED travel writer Bill Bryson today backed the Liverpool Echo’s “Be a Binner, not a Sinner” campaign. The world-renowned author, who once famously said after a visit that the city was celebrating a “festival of litter”, was joining council...
Espectaculares estas frases, la mayoria llenas de razon y sencillez. Bjarne Stroustrup, developer of the C++ programming language Commentary: most debugging problems are fixed easily; identifying the location of the problem is hard. -- unknown Considering the current sad state of our computer...
Today WITS is hosting Paul Kilduff as part of his blog tour. Square Mile was published in 1999, The Dealer in 2000, The Frontrunner in 2001 and The Headhunter in 2003, which were published by Hodder & Stoughton in London and by Muelenhoff in The Netherlands. He decided to write a travel book a...
PARISH councils are backing a campaign chief's call to blitz the blight of litter. Commander Robin Bawtree, executive director of the Dorset branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), said he believed parish council backing for a campaign to clean up the county would make a...
I finished with Julian Barnes last month. I don't quite know what to do with myself. It wasn't unexpected, of course; as soon as he came into my life again I knew the end would come. He turns up when he feels like it and knows I'll be waiting, pre-ordered...
How very ungenerous of Joan Acocella. In her long New Yorker essay about hangovers, "A Few Too Many" (May 26, $4.50), she cites Kingsley Amis several times, quotes him at length and mentions (without naming them) his three books on drinking but she fails to point out that Everyday Drinking: The...
My friend, Barry Joseph, said with his brilliant dry sense of humor, "Ark Road, that is fitting for this hike." This Amazon River rain storm couldn't stop us from making a two-and-a-half hour ride to hike the high ridges of the Kittatinny Mountains. Joseph, his wife Joan Myers and friends Ann and...
Russia is well known for its extensive reading culture, but where do foreigners and Russians go for English-language books? There is a wide selection of dictionaries and teaching manuals here, English classics and Russian-translated-into-English classics with prices ranging between 80 and 350...
Tony Horwitz visits forgotten corners of American history—literally by Michael Ray Taylor After a chance visit to Plymouth Rock (which resembles a five-foot “fossilized potato”), Tony Horwitz realizes that, despite being a college history major—not to mention the celebrated author of historical...
As I've mentioned before, the Oxford graduate population is not particularly British, and so brings home to you the peculiarities of being British, makes you see that certain ways of doing and being that you accept as natural are in fact contingent, even if you could no more shake them off than...
