In these orchestra slashing (poor beleagured CBC radio orchestra), and writer shafting times, it’s rare enough to find a moment of advantage (once you don’t include\u00a0obvious improvements in\u00a0cholera, polio, public hanging\u00a0etc)\u00a0but today I chanced upon an advantaged moment to being a writer in this century, at this most inhospitable of writerly times …<\/p>\n
“A hairy face was required of writers in the mid nineteenth century…”<\/p>\n
From Claire Tomalin’s Thomas Hardy The Time-Torn Man. (p92 Penguin).<\/p>\n
I have been reading\u00a0Tomalin’s\u00a0very enjoyable biography of Hardy in tandem with an equally intriguing history of Iraqi football. Perhaps an unusual pairing, but I wonder of other such pairings, where folks read distinctly different books at that same time.<\/p>\n
Post your pairings.<\/p>\n
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