JIM DODSON: My Checkered Automotive Past Jul 27, 2008
I was, after all, getting older and wiser, now a serious aspiring twentysomething who read a lot of Graham Greene novels. I could just picture myself tooling around town with a girl who looked like Julie Christie riding in the passenger seat, laughing at my urbane jokes on our way to the Steeplechase. (The Pilot Newspaper)
A bit more to the story, from a bloke who can spin a yarn Jul 26, 2008
"I was a great admirer of Graham Greene," Cleary recounted. "I'd read The Power And The Glory and Brighton Rock but I didn't really know how to put a novel together. I sat down and did it and, as much by luck as anything, it won second prize" - to Ruth Park's The Harp In The South - "in The Sydney Morning Herald's first book contest.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
A chronicle of 4 nonfiction books Jul 23, 2008
It seems odd to classify the work of Graham Greene, a writer with a complicated relationship to Roman Catholicism, as "Christian" fiction, as Radosh does. In this book, though, nuance usually falls by the wayside. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Evelyn Waugh has a mixed filmography Jul 20, 2008
When his friend Graham Greene was asked to do a script in 1950, Waugh encouraged him. "Please don't try to get out of 'Brideshead,' " he wrote Greene. (Boston Globe)
All in the mind Jul 13, 2008
"He'd sort of tear up and manipulate his own emotions." McGrath read "virtually everything" taking a "passionate interest" in horror stories but also Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene. McGrath's Irish background meant summer holidays with family near Galway and has left him still rolling his Rs in a sort of brogue. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
British recruiters seek female spies Jul 13, 2008
More than 20,000 people have applied since MI6 began its open recruiting campaign about a year ago, in a drive that has all but replaced the famous shoulder tap used to recruit author Graham Greene and others in World War II.. MI6's website encourages mothers to apply and assures women they won't be used as "honey pots," or seductresses. (USA Today)
The death of life writing Jun 28, 2008
Celebrity memoirs, breathless lives of 18th-century socialites and countless royal mistresses - whatever happened to the golden age of biography. And what is the future for a genre in which the best subjects have already been written about, time and again, asks Kathryn Hughes. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Racy addition to UGA'scollection of rare books Jun 21, 2008
It was an interesting job, and as long as I had a book, I was all right," he said. Later, assigned to a military base in West Palm Beach, Fla., Thomas learned to operate one of the world's first rudimentary computers, used by the military to encrypt and decode messages, he said. After the war, Thomas came back to Georgia to finish his business degree, but soon earned a library science degree from Emory University and later added a master's degree in English and journalism at UGA. After stints at... (Athens Banner-Herald)
The reluctant propagandist Jun 21, 2008
(Taylor had also employed Ivan Moffatt and Graham Greene. Maclaren-Ross (immortalised as X Trapnel by Anthony Powell in A Dance to the Music of Time) was a hard drinker in the Thomas mould. (Guardian Unlimited)
Mercenary trial gets under way in Equatorial Guinea Jun 18, 2008
The tale of the plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea in 2004 was so improbable that it sounded like something out of a tale from the tropics too outlandish even for Graham Greene. It was, as outlined in a series of court cases and breathless news articles, a steamy stew of British upper-crusters concocting a scheme on behalf of a reclusive financier to use mercenaries to overthrow the tin pot dictator of a tiny, mineral-rich African nation for fun and profit - or, as the... (International Herald Tribune)
Matinee idol of the travel book Jun 14, 2008
Graham Greene considered him among "the best writers, not of any particular decade, but of our century". The masterworks include Naples '44, an idiosyncratic portrait of a valiant city half wrecked by war, and Voices of the Old Sea, an extended vignette of a Spanish fishing village about to be wrecked by tourism. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Devil May Care Jun 7, 2008
In this deftly done new novel (or perhaps, per Graham Greene, "entertainment"), Faulks demonstrates this by taking on not only Ian Fleming's whack-thwap style but his whack-thwap working method. He cranked out Devil May Care in a flat six weeks and it's all the livelier for it. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The saddest story Jun 7, 2008
Perhaps it would do more good just to assume and assert Ford's value, and to point to those fellow-writers who have been vocal in his cause, from Graham Greene to William Carlos Williams to Anthony Burgess. And among the living. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
V.S. Naipaul's 'A Writer's People' Jun 7, 2008
" His surprise at this, all these years later, is, well, surprising. Although Naipaul does not often confront the topic directly, he says enough to give the impression that the lack of interest that greeted his early work in Britain still rankles. In his telling, the main English writers did not understand him, and he had little appreciation for them (the book is crammed with dismissive comments about Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Philip Larkin and many others). "It is amazing to me," he writes,... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Sebastian Faulks' James Bond is a man out of place in Devil May Care May 28, 2008
In this deftly done new novel (or perhaps, per Graham Greene, "entertainment") Sebastian Faulks demonstrates this by taking on not only Ian Fleming's whack-thwap style but his whack-thwap working method. He cracked out Devil May Care in a flat six weeks, and it's all the livelier for it. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Essential reading May 27, 2008
It is true that foreign fiction does sell in some independent shops - Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath, which this month won Independent Bookshop of the Year, sells more Haruki Murakami than Graham Greene. "The monstrosity," says Christopher MacLehose, who ran Harvill, Britain's pre-eminent publisher of translated fiction, for 21 years, "is to compare [this to] what is available in translation in every other European country, with the possible exception of the Faro Islands. You go on... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Obituary: Roy AK Heath May 20, 2008
Despite having lived in Britain since the age of 24, he only ever wrote about his native land, although critics saw in his work resonances of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad. His most acclaimed novel, The Murderer - which Carmen Callil and Colm Toibin list in The Modern Library: 200 Best Novels in English since 1950 - won the Guardian fiction prize in 1978, at which time Roy confessed, in a rare interview, that his knowledge of English literature was confined to... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
THRILLER: Who will be the election hero of '08? May 18, 2008
We also know who's likely to win in the end, unless, of course, the writer is someone like John le Carre or Graham Greene -- authors from the noir school, whose heroes often fail. McCain, of course, is already a hero, with a war record and hard-earned medals to prove it. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Only the lonely: Proulx on Edward Hopper May 16, 2008
Just as Graham Greene created a distinctive mood of place that critics called "Greeneland", Hopper painted the feeling familiar to most humans - the triste embedded in existence, in our intimate knowledge of the solitude of the self. Although the 20th century was the heyday of Jung, Freud and psychoanalysis, if ever Hopper felt his psyche was distorted, he did not want it corrected, for art came from who the artist was in every way. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Biographer fails to get to the heart of Conrad May 13, 2008
Stape writes that Conrad is "uncommonly influential on novelists" like Graham Greene and John le Carr , and quotes short review snippets from the English literary press, but none of his major critics, among them F. R. Leavis and Edward Said, who have approached Conrad from radically different directions. Conrad never ceases to be relevant. (Boston Globe)
Noir At Home May 4, 2008
Corbett's latest, the highly politicized (and Edgar Award-nominated) "Blood of Paradise," has drawn comparison with the work of Graham Greene and Robert Stone, putting him in the vanguard of crime writers producing "serious" fiction. "I write stories about crime as the beautiful, bitter lie. For Americans, crime is a natural intoxicant, because for millions the brass ring is so damn close and just that much out of reach. So I write about how crime affects people - the people who do it, the... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Back - due to popular demand May 3, 2008
"For those of my generation," wrote Graham Greene, "Gerhardie was the most important new novelist to appear in our young life." Greene's contemporaries were reading the brilliant Futility, a novel on Russian themes first published in 1922, which draws on Gerhardie's own wartime experiences. This, his first novel, was taken up in England by Katherine Mansfield (who found a publisher for Gerhardie) and also by Edith Wharton, who wrote an enthusiastic preface to the American edition. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The meat of it May 2, 2008
When I look at my bookshelves, I can only admire and envy the rows and rows of slim volumes published mostly between the 1950s and 70s: Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, John Wyndham, Iris Murdoch, Jean Rhys, Albert Camus, Edna O'Brien - each a perfectly crafted, fatless, wholly readable yet intellectually beguiling work of fiction. And sitting there, like queens among royals, are the novels of Beryl Bainbridge. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Oscar Winners from the Early 1990s Apr 22, 2008
Along the way, he develops a strong friendship with a tribe member (Graham Greene) and a white woman (Mary McDonnell) who has been raised by the tribe. The film is beautifully photographed and the story, although slow moving at times, is well told. (Suite101.com)
Radio Theatre Returns to WIT Apr 20, 2008
The Great Plains Radio Theatre Project (GPR) returns to the WIT Black Box Theater with the radio adaptation of the classic Graham Greene novel, "The Third Man," for a two-night run. The 1949 film noir movie adaptation starred Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Truly, madly, deeply Apr 19, 2008
From 1967 he settled with Elspeth at the farmhouse (helped financially by his long-time admirer Graham Greene). They had five children and, for the first time, Barker lived with a family more or less uninterruptedly. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
A prime number: URI stages "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" Apr 18, 2008
"Dame Muriel Spark, who was born in 1918 and died in 2006, never saw greater fame than with "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," but she published her last novel, "The Finishing School," as recently as 2004. Her early work caught the attention of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, and several of her novels deal with conversion to Catholicism, which she underwent as a young adult writer.Does Wortman, a teacher, find a personal kinship with Jean Brodie? "I think that every teacher has to have a... (Westerly Sun, RI)
Waugh at the BBC: 'the most ill-natured interview ever' on CD after 55 years Apr 15, 2008
The disc follows similar CDs from the British Library featuring rarely heard WH Auden and Graham Greene. Next up is Ted Hughes and Edith Sitwell. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Brownstein: The bottom line on Iraq Apr 12, 2008
"We haven't seen any lights at the end of the tunnel." Crocker, whose world-weary answers sometimes sound as if they were scripted by Graham Greene or Raymond Chandler, often reduced his message to five flinty words: Nothing is easy in Iraq. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Local movie buffs create their 'dream' festivals Apr 10, 2008
Strangelove" meets "Six Feet Under"? "Our Man In Havana" (1959) Carol Reed and Graham Greene are well known for their collaboration on the classic "The Third Man," (screened at the 2006 Robert Osborne's Classic Film Festival) filmed in a bombed-out post-war Vienna in 1948. Ten years later, with a Revolution in Cuba just established and with Castro and Che' in power - in the months just before a Soviet partnership - Reed and Greene tag-teamed it once more with a classic comedy about an English... (Athens Banner-Herald)
This Day in History Apr 3, 2008
Graham Greene, British author (1904-1991). Untitled Document. (Montana Standard, MT)
Click for Full Story Apr 3, 2008
Thought for Today: "I didn't invent the world I write about -- it's all true." -- Graham Greene, British author (1904-1991). (Source: Associated Press). (KWTX.com, TX)
Sun, Sand & Drugs Mar 22, 2008
Discovered by hippie travellers in the 1960s, Anjuna is where Graham Greene, during an early visit, found it possible "to forget the poverty of Bombay, 400 miles away, the mutilated beggars, the lepers... 00004000 " It is where, some four decades later, William Dalrymple spotted on the dunes by the shore what "appeared to be a topless six-a-side female football team - an odd sight anywhere in the world, but an astonishing one in India". In the years between, hippies, punks, Rastafarians,... (India Times, India)
Love your library: See a slideshow, enroll in Babygarten Mar 20, 2008
Next month, the group will read and discuss The Quiet American by Graham Greene. This book discussion group is free and new members are welcome. (Somerville Journal, MA)
Samuel J. Hamrick, novelist of spies and burnt-out cases Mar 18, 2008
WASHINGTON - Samuel Hamrick Jr., 78, a retired Foreign Service officer who wrote thoughtful and engaging spy thrillers that critics occasionally ranked alongside the best of Graham Greene and John Le Carre, died Feb. 29 of colon cancer at his farm near Boston, Va. Mr. Hamrick, who wrote under the name W.T. Tyler, drew on 20 years of experience as a State Department analyst in Africa and the Middle East. (Boston Globe)
Accountants in the movies. By Rob Lewis Mar 5, 2008
Adaptation of Graham Greene novel Loser Takes All. Nickel and Dime (1991) Buddy comedy in which a heir tracer who hasnt paid his taxes for eight years teams up with a by-the-book certified public accountant played by an actor called Wallace Shawn. (Accounting Web, UK)
Obituary: Julian Rathbone Mar 4, 2008
" He then compiled a short annotated list. At the top of the list was "people who take themselves seriously". Anyone who has read even a small part of Rathbone's diffuse output over the past 40 years will recognise the sound of that voice and its capacity for sudden turns. It is the voice of a funny, cross, feeling man with a poetic streak a mile wide and a proximate eye for the wonders of sex and death. He was, literally, a wonderful writer. He always expressed that wonder from a position close... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Weinberger On Buckley Feb 28, 2008
Excerpt: Trudeau was listening to Mexico's Carlos Fuentes when he spotted Graham Greene. "That was a stirring speech you gave," Trudeau said [to Greene. (Forbes -- Business)
Obituary: Ronald Segal Feb 26, 2008
In between the travelling, Segal had a passion for literature and classical music and collected first editions, in particular Henry James, George Orwell and Graham Greene. Round his bridge table could be found Peter Jay, Mark Boxer and Hugh Stephenson, while his poker mainstay was the Marxist Joe Slovo. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Review: Winter In Madrid by C. J. Sansom Feb 19, 2008
A best seller in Britain, "Winter in Madrid" prompted some reviewers there to compare Sansom to Graham Greene, Sebastian Faulks and even Hemingway, but I came away less convinced. The idea of transferring public school rivalries to a real battleground is certainly clever, but more introspection would have been welcome. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
* [BOOK REVIEW] JG Ballard's final countdown, from empire to dystopia Feb 17, 2008
Graham Greene once wrote that a writer's childhood is the bank at which, in later life, he will cash his creative checks. In another exploration of the writer's inspiration, he also declared, in A Sort of Life, that novelists write out of "a desire to reduce a chaos of experience to some sort of order." If the extraordinary life and work of JG (Jim) Ballard is a case study of these observations, then Miracles of Life, his autobiography, is a detached commentary on a life foretold. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
English Writer Graham Greene Feb 11, 2008
Graham Greene, one of the greatest and most popular English writers of the 20th century, is famous for bestselling novels like Brighton Rock, The Third Man, The Quiet American, and Our Man in Havana ... Early Life of Graham Greene ... Henry Graham Greene, (1904-1991), was born in Berkhamsted and educated in a local school there, and later, at Balliol College, Oxford. (Suite101.com)
A Somerset Maugham biography: Feb 3, 2008
Somerset Maugham was a prolific writer, traveler, socialite and spy, influencing such writers as Ian Fleming, Graham Greene and John le Carr ... Spy novelist John le Carr; and Graham Greene s The Quiet American also ring with echoes of Maugham. (Suite101.com)
Greene King Sales Slow on Indoor-Smoking Ban, Reduced Consumer Spending Feb 1, 2008
Greene King, which was started in 1799 by the great-grandfather of author Graham Greene, agreed in August to buy the Loch Fyne chain of seafood restaurants and said in November it would acquire a company that runs 49 pubs in northern England. Sales at Loch Fyne have climbed 2. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Julie Burchill Jan 17, 2008
Graham Greene saw a writer's childhood as his capital; the same can be said of a writer's troubles, whether random or self-inflicted. Until recently, partly because they were determined to demonstrate their skill and partly because they didn't want to have people pointing and laughing at them, writers used to take life's little pile-ups and make bad, banal or brilliant fiction out of them. (Guardian Unlimited)
Ted Hughes tops critics' table Jan 8, 2008
Letters of Ted Hughes by Christopher Reid (11) The Blair Years by Alastair Campbell (9) Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee (8) Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore (7) Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre (7) Exit Music by Philip Roth (7) Austerity Britain by David Kynaston (7) The Whisperers by Orlando Figes (7) God's Architect by Rosemary Hill (7) Moro East by Sam and Sam Clarke (7) River Cottage Fish Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (7) My Manchester United Years by Bobby Charlton (6) The Lodger by... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
SignOn A&E Staff Jan 5, 2008
keli_dailey(P) Better than Graham Greene, Derrik. Good stuff. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
From student rag to literary riches Dec 30, 2007
Here is Issue 13, with stories by Milan Kundera and Doris Lessing, and here is number 17, with ruminations by Graham Greene. Here is Granta 5 from the early Eighties, with a prescient fate-of-the-earth scenario from Jonathan Schell. (Guardian Unlimited)
Sheriff of Nottingham Dec 29, 2007
Leonard repays the compliment, comparing Harvey to Graham Greene, "a stylist who tells you everything you need to know while keeping the prose clean and simple". He has continued writing absorbing plots that also, "and I hope it doesn't sound too pretentious, give a picture of what a post-industrial, medium-sized city, Nottingham in this case, is like. It's the sort of thing the French love and always ask me about. All their questions are about the politics of Britain rather than the crime.". (Guardian Unlimited)
To live with books, perchance to read them Dec 27, 2007
Studded as it is with stories about books and reading taken from some of the greatest writers, including Graham Greene, Umberto Eco, Oscar Wilde and Montaigne (as well as the Bill Murray film Groundhog Day), How to Talk. is obviously the product of a voracious reader quite unlike its narrator, a university professor who declares off the top to love books so much he does not read at all because he would not want to show disrespect toward any one work by ignoring it in favour of another. (Globe and Mail)
Difficulties in changing your faith Dec 23, 2007
Search Politics for MPs and issues. By postcode or place. (Guardian Unlimited)
Difficulties in changing faith Dec 23, 2007
Difficulties in changing your faith. Richard HarriesSunday December 23, 2007. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
'The Diving Bell': An Awakening Beyond Words Dec 22, 2007
Those are words worthy of Primo Levi, an author Bauby often recalls, even if his heroes are Balzac, Dumas and Graham Greene. "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" is propelled by narrative tension, one strain having to do with whether Bauby will be visited by the lover he left his family for, the other between his own shaky religious faith and the religious devotion of the "vast network" of people who are praying for him. (Washington Post)
The hedge kid Dec 22, 2007
He points out the ride where a young Graham Greene escaped from boarding school to attempt suicide in a game of Russian roulette with his father's revolver ... The family lived in Berkhamsted, next to an estate that had once belonged to Graham Greene's uncle. (Guardian Unlimited)
Revisiting Anita Desai Dec 6, 2007
While chatting with her about her Mexican sojourns, one discovered again how the Western writers such as D H Lawrence and Graham Greene looked at the country. And how Desai saw the landscape and the people through her Indian eyes. (Rediff)
Greene King First-Half Profit Rises on Acquisition, Sales of Its Own Ale Dec 4, 2007
Greene King, which was started in 1799 by the great- grandfather of author Graham Greene, raised its first-half dividend by 13 percent to 7. 3 pence a share. (Bloomberg -- UK)
The end of the affair Dec 1, 2007
FOR one magic moment a Graham Greene letter connected him to Vladimir Putin, the Russian president ... "Not even that. I was very disappointed. Graham wrote a character sketch of Putin for MI6. I nearly put that in but it was kind of dull. If the book'd been a third longer I wouldn't have hesitated." Sixty thousand words were cut but what's left in Graham Greene: A Life In Letters will titillate even the nosiest of fans ... "Thirty-two years living with Graham Greene". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Art of darkness Dec 1, 2007
What he wants us to see is: the lot. Not one side or another, but the whole shooting match A Polish immigrant, cabin boy and gunrunner, Joseph Conrad wrote action-packed adventure stories, which were also modernist classics. (Guardian Unlimited)
James Hebert's 10 book-to-box office adaptations that worked Dec 1, 2007
The Quiet American (2002): Brendan Fraser, as the enigmatic Yank, is surprisingly weighty opposite Michael Caine's cynical Brit journalist, in this film of the prescient 1955 Graham Greene novel about Vietnam. The Razor's Edge (1984): People freaked out over seeing Bill Carl the Groundskeeper Murray in a serious role, but this version of the W. Somerset Maugham novel has its flaky charms. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Books special Nov 25, 2007
Harry Potter's finale, the lives of Stalin, Brian Clough and Graham Greene, Ted Hughes's letters, a history of teenagers and not forgetting a tome on Welsh furniture ... Richard Greene's Graham Greene: A Life in Letters (Little, Brown), a superbly edited selection of a great writer's correspondence, is far superior to any of the recent biographies. (Guardian Unlimited)
RHETA GRIMSLEY JOHNSON: One holiday idea stimulates wider thinking Nov 24, 2007
There also was "Our Man in Havana" by Graham Greene and " The Moviegoer" by Walker Percy and "Papillon" by Henri Charriere. And there were other books that have been around a while but might be breaking news to young men on your Christmas list. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
Gay hockey movie Nov 19, 2007
Hockey, of course, looms large in the film which also features Megan Follows and Graham Greene as Eric takes it upon himself to teach Scot the game, with mixed results. Eric is frequently seen sporting Leafs paraphernalia, and Cavanagh said the use of the NHL and Maple Leafs logos was crucial to the film. (Western Star)
Breakfast with Scot *** Nov 16, 2007
Starring Tom Cavanagh, Ben Shenkman and Noah Bernett, Megan Follows, Sheila McCarthy and Graham Greene Classification: PG. Related Articles. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Spies like us are mere innocents Nov 10, 2007
Koch cites Graham Greene, novelist, ice-cool observer and, at times, some sort of spy. "To become a novelist you eavesdrop on life and you watch life in the manner of a spy. [The difference is] spies are much more expert than novelists.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A Diplomacy of Neighborhoods Oct 31, 2007
Sweaty, humid hellholes make great backdrops for Graham Greene novels, but service in a political and economic backwater doesn't add career-enhancing glitter to a diplomatic resume. It should. (Townhall.com)
