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‘This Crappy Book …’

Posted on February 28, 2012 by admin

IF you don’t know how to begin your book review you reach straight for the Dictionary of Quotations. So: ‘I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so’ – Sydney Smith, essayist and compulsive reviewer. And there, you are started.

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Posted in Reviews | Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, book reviews, Fred Astaire, Jacques Cousteau, Noel Coward, Paul Theroux, Sydney Smith, The Economist

The Man Who Wasn’t There

Posted on February 16, 2012 by admin

Book Review: Fred Astaire by Joseph Epstein

 

 

WHO was Fred Astaire? It is one of those questions that turns out to be a lot easier to ask than it is to answer.

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Posted in Profiles, Reviews | Tagged Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper, Ginger Rogers, Gorge Balanchine, Hollywood, Joseph Epstein, Omaha, Shall We Dance, Swing Time, Top Hat, Yale

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