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How can Love, Sex, Death & Words be justified for a volume of literary dates, all based on the solitary act of an author sitting down quietly with a quill, pencil, typewriter or keyboard? In fact, not only the fourth noun but also the first three are
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Leading names in literature, including Salman Rushdie and Martin Amis , have joined forces to try to safeguard the memory of DH Lawrence and of the lost mining industry that inspired much of his work. The focus of the campaign is a modest
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Irish censors ban re-release of 1978 horror film Camille Keaton stars in "I Spit on Your Grave" Irish film censors have banned the re-release of a controversial 1978 horror movie. DVD I Spit on Your Grave, starring Buster Keaton's granddaughter
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Because it makes him feel intimate with one of the most remarkable men of the 20th century A section of the letter written by DH Lawrence and bought by Geoff Dyer About five years ago I went to Eastwood to give a lecture on DH Lawrence . Before the
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Columbia University has acquired the papers of publisher and First Amendment crusader Barney Rosset. The New York school announced Monday its Rare Book & Manuscript Library would be home to Rosset's letters, manuscripts and other
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Lawrence (1928) Probably the most famous sexually explicit novel of all time, it looks a little tame by some standards today. ''He laid his hand on her shoulder, and softly, gently, it began to travel down the curve of her back, blindly, with a blind
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first things first We take a slightly different tack this week. In each of the questions below, your task is to identify which of the three things or events grouped together happened first. We're going to stick to the 20th century here, but we're
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Among his conclusions about the state of the British (and Commonwealth) novel was that no one was writing much about sex any more. He had a theory to explain this. "It's as if they were paranoid about being nominated for the Bad Sex Award ," he said,
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Although they were not the first paperbacks, they were truly innovative and captured the imagination." In fact, the company's distinctive branding has captured the heart of the public so much it is now available on items ranging from deck chairs to
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June 1st, 2010 by Tim In the 21st century we're pretty happily wed to the concept of free speech, and thinking that printed media should be allowed, regardless of what its content is. Yet, until recently, it was incredibly common for books to be
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