‘It’s irresistible, as compulsive as eating popcorn’
Posted on 2010/11/04 , tagged as
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John Sutherland and Stephen Fender’s Love, Sex, Death and Words is reviewed in the Guardian.
‘I’ve had tremendous fun reading [the entries] – arguing with some, substituting others, quoting them over lunch – and pleasure is at the heart of this project. It’s irresistible, as compulsive as eating popcorn. Hawthorne and Melville meet for the first time, Petrarch catches first sight of Laura, Picasso, Joyce, Stravinsky and Diaghilev and Proust dine together at the Majestic, Anthony Burgess (like Scott and Whitman before him) gives a glowing review to his own book, Defoe invents the novel, but doesn’t know what to call it, Bertolt Brecht testifies before HUAC, Jeffrey Archer “goes down”.’
