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Review of J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime, by Nigel Beale In Patrick Suskind’s novel Perfume, protagonist Jean Baptiste Grenouille is birthed on a stinking hot day in July 1738 under a gutting table in a fish market in Paris. Abandoned amidst the swarm of flies and offal and then orphaned , he subsequently legs his way through a succession of wet nurses, each of whom, in turn, refuses and rejects him in disgust because he ‘doesn’t smell human.’ According to the composite profile we get in Summe… read review

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Reviewed: Collected Critical Writings of Geoffrey Hill | Geoffrey Hill

Contrived to Stimulate

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Reviewed: On Criticism | Noel Carroll

A Critique of On Criticism by Noel Carroll

3 years ago
Reviewed: The Hunter | George Murray

Appreciation of George Murray's Poem 'Hunter'

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Audio Interview with Margaret MacMillan by Nigel Beale:

3 years ago

Conversation that addresses the question: How do you Write History?

referencing The Uses and Abuses of History, and Extraordinary Canadians: Stephen Leacock
Please listen here:
http://nigelbeale.com/2009/06/audio-interview-with-margaret-macmillan-on-how-to-write-history/ view post

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Appriciation of George Murray's Poem The Hunter
3 years ago
Audio Interview with Rivka Galchen on her first novel Atmospheric Disturbances
3 years ago
Audio Interview with Giller Prize winner Joseph Boyden
4 years ago

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Nigel Beale

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Nigel Beale is a freelance writer/broadcaster who specializes in literary journalism. He hosts a radio program called The Biblio File. For more info visit http://nigelbeale.com/
Interests:

Books, literary criticism, photographing book shops, tequila and exotic destinations.
Favourite Books:

Shakepeare's Works, War and Peace, The Brothers Karamazov, The Red and the Black, London Fields, Disgrace, and on and on.
Favourite Movies:

Gladiator, Batman Begins.
Favourite Music:

Hans Zimmer. Bob Dylan. Rufus Wainwright.
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Shakespeare
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Nigel Beale wrote a review Bio-Fiction about Summertime by J.m. Coetzee.
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emerson entwistle says:

Hiya, welcome to the poems group.
I would love for you to post some of your favorites and hopefully find some new ones :)
-emerson
Dundurn Press says:

Thanks for the add - I love your site, Note Bene books!
Random House of Canada says:

Hi Nigel,

Thanks for adding us!
Nigel Beale says:

Lilsten to my interview with author Rivka Galchen here: http://nigelbeale.com/?p=1234
Nigel Beale says:

Listen to The Biblio file interview with Nam Le, author of The Boat, here:
http://nigelbeale.com/?p=1206
Nigel Beale says:

Listen to my interview with Giller Winner Joseph Boyden here:
http://nigelbeale.com/?p=1200
Nigel Beale says:

Read my review of Stephen Henighan's The Afterlife of Culture here:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080726.BKHENI26/TPStory/Entertainment/Books

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Lorina Stephens/Five Rivers wrote a review A writer without peer about The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie.
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Heather Reisman wrote a review A truly wonderful read about Ru by Kim Thuy.
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