March 2016 - BookBlast® Official

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Anne Dolamore Grub Street Publishing Interview

March 29, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Anne Dolamore, Grub Street Publishing co-founder Were your parents great readers? My parents did both read; my mother mostly fiction but my father did love poetry and when I was a child […]

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Vegetarianism A History Colin Spencer Review

March 29, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Colin Spencer is best known as a food writer although he is also an autobiographer, artist, TV and radio presenter. He believes that the history of evolution is reflected in the human diet: “What people […]

Colin Spencer Author & Artist Interview

March 29, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Colin Spencer, author & artist Colin Spencer, tell us a little bit about yourself. I’ve been painting, drawing and writing since I was a child, which means that I’ve been doing it […]

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Michael Schmidt Carcanet Press Interview

March 20, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Michael Schmidt, Carcanet Press CEO Michael Schmidt, tell us a bit about yourself. Are (were) your parents great readers? My parents both read a lot of books and the house was full […]

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Skies Alison Brackenbury Review

March 20, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

“Alison Brackenbury loves, lives, hymns and rhymes the natural world and its people like no other poet.” Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales Brackenbury’s latest (ninth) collection, Skies, reflects on childhood memory, Christmas in the […]

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Alison Brackenbury Poet Interview

March 20, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Alison Brackenbury, poet Alison Brackenbury, tell us a little bit about yourself. I grew up in what now seems almost like Victorian England, in the Lincolnshire countryside. I won a scholarship to […]

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Maurice Girodias & Olympia Press Explorations

March 11, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet 1

Maurice Girodias writes in his introduction to The Olympia Reader, Grove Press, 1965: “Since my earliest childhood the notion of individual freedom had been deeply rooted in me. Everything I saw or felt as I […]

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Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Explorations

March 11, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

“Lolita was rejected by four American publishers in 1954; published in Paris by The Olympia Press, September 1955; banned by the French government, December 1956; found “not objectionable” by U. S. Customs, February 1957; back […]