Jonathan Raban’s recent Granta article about the American Northwest and the wilderness is available on his site here. It traces the impact white America has had on the essentially wild character of the landscape, including the development of the Grand Coulee Dam, the Richland Nuclear Facility and the vineyards of Eastern Washington State.
Twitter: karlwhitney- Battersby: 'only quiver of excitement was [...] that veteran British novelist Howard Jacobson had eased in ahead of Rose Tremain.' Phwoar!
- @john_self I'm going to say a combination of the two, added to her general hostility towards experimental fiction.
- Stig debacle causes Jeremy Clarkson to reassess own values? Now says 'greed is bad': http://bit.ly/bW8QRQ
- Nicholas Murray on Josipovici's Modernism book: http://bit.ly/b2bqlw
- Owen Hatherley and John Houghton in discussion tonight @3ammagazine 3:AM cities event in London: http://bit.ly/dCrHyV