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Lessing Is More [Doris Lessing] (Jezebel)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:49:00 GMT

Gloriously salty bitch and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing gave an interview to Time and she was hilariously cranky as usual. "As you get older, you don't get wiser," she says. "You get irritable."... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Doris Lessing Q and A (Time)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:20:00 GMT

Nearly ninety, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing refuses to play the role of Britain's elder literary stateswoman

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THURSDAY TRAILBLAZER: Doris Lessing (Trashionista)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:08:13 GMT

Goodness, there is so much information on Doris Lessing swimming about I'm having a hard time condensing it. To make things simple I'll begin at the beginning. Doris was born in Persia (now Iran) in 1919 to British parents. When she was six they moved to Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Her mother and father are the subject of her latest novel Alfred & Emily. Apparently her mother...

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Will Mossad Assassinate Obama? (Rock The Truth)

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:34:00 GMT

" Will the Mossad Assassinate Obama? " "Ever since the Middle Ages, there has always been one act which has been strictly prohibited. It is forbidden to speak of the death of the King. British Communist and Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing is 88 years old, and has either decided she's old enough to disregard the taboo, or else she's gone senile and has forgotten this taboo exists. Lessing...

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Apt’s links for June 19th (Times emit)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:31:50 GMT

BBC - Radio 4 - Woman’s Hour -The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing - SEOmoz | Beginner’s Guide to SEO - Single Page Version - Aha. Note to self. Direct clients here. Diego Ulrich - Yes. Nice letterpress work on the history of the book from St Martins degree show. Seth’s Blog: Random thoughts about the [...]

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The Golden Notebook — readers wanted (if:book)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:50:39 GMT

if:book readers may remember my excited post from last October when Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize. I had coincidentally re-read The Golden Notebook over the summer and when I realized that none of my younger colleagues had read it, or even knew anyone of their generation who had read it, I started musing about the possibilities of having readers from two generations reading it together,...

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things I missed yesterday… (Irish Blogs)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:53:03 GMT

noagebranding.com has signed up more than 1500 supporters. (1541 to be pedantic) > A short Harry Potter prequel was sold for €31,588 on Tuesday in aid of Dyslexia Action and English PEN. (Irish Times) You can read JK Rowling’s story as well as shorts from Lauren Child, Neil Gaiman, Doris Lessing, Irvine Welsh, Michael Rosen, Tom Stoppard, Richard Ford, Nick Hornby Margaret Atwood and...

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WaterStone's postcards (Electric Spec Editor Blog)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:32:00 GMT

I can't resist linking to the Waterstone (British bookstore chain) postcards. They say "To celebrate the National Year of Reading, 13 world-class authors including JK Rowling, Doris Lessing, Neil Gaiman and Irvine Welsh have told us their story, and we'd love you to tell us yours." Personally, I loved the Rowling and Gaiman stories! Click them all out here. Which is your favorite? :)

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Rowling snippet a snip at £25,000 (The Herald )

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:45:42 GMT

An 800-word prequel to JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series has sold for £25,000 at auction. The snippet was penned by the author on two sides of an A5 sheet and donated along with similar cards by Irvine Welsh, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood and Nick Hornby.

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Sunday Lunch Party (Jan's and John's Peripatetic Advent)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:02:35 GMT

We're in London, coninues... Yesterday we went to lunch at Doris Lessing's house. It was just a few people, most of whom we've met before, including our friends Ramsay and Gill. Doris always has the most interesting guests at her...

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Doris Lessing: The Fifth Child (Brit Lit Blogs)

no-reply@britlitblogs.com (Asylum) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:08:40 GMT

When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature last year, I wasted no time in getting hold of one of her books: The Golden Notebook , as it was the only one they had in my local bookshop. I then wasted even less time reading it …by which I mean I didn’t bother. It seemed so long (”But novels - they’re all long, aren’t they? They’re all so long ,” as my namesake put it in Martin...

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Doris Lessing’s what-if family history (Moderato)

Fri, 30 May 2008 16:40:58 GMT

One may write a life in five volumes, or in a sentence. How about this? Alfred Tayler, a vigorous and healthy man, was wounded badly in the First World War, tried to live as if he were not incapacitated, illnesses defeated him, and at the end of a shortened life he was begging, “You put a sick old dog out of its misery, why not me?” Doris Lessing follows this factual summary not so much...

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sleepless nights - and Doris Lessing (Poets & Madmen)

Fri, 30 May 2008 04:49:00 GMT

...another fairly sleepless night...it is becoming a habit.... I think stress, lack of physical exercise and bad eating habits are taking their toll. On the other hand, I managed to catch a documentary IMAGINE: Doris Lessing - The Hostess and The Alien on BBC1 and it moved me in many ways. I feelt astange kinship for the many overlapping co-incidences in our lives: a younger brother and...

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D. H. Lawrence's heir ... (Books, Inq.)

Thu, 29 May 2008 18:00:00 GMT

... Doris Lessing's what-if family history .

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Last night's TV: Imagine, Doris Lessing (The blog TV & Radio)

Wed, 28 May 2008 07:45:16 GMT

Armed with a cup of tea and nothing to prove, Doris Lessing addressed her past with a vivid wit

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Last Night's TV: Storyville: The Biggest Chinese Restaurant In The World, BBC4 Imagine...Doris Lessing – The Hostess And The Alien, BBC1 (The Independent)

Tue, 27 May 2008 23:00:01 GMT

Here's a dish that I don't think you're going to find on the BBC food website any time soon: fried live fish, as served up by the West Lake restaurant in China. First, wrap your left hand in a damp tea towel. Then select your live fish from a nearby bucket and descale with the edge of a cleaver, while holding the head on the chopping block (your main ingredient may be making vigorous attempts to escape)....

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The gaffe by which all gaffes may forever be judged (Daimnation!)

Sat, 24 May 2008 01:30:44 GMT

Back in January, I wrote that if Obama wins the Democratic Presidential nomination, you'd see many people following Doris Lessing's lead and musing about his possible assassination. I never thought his opponent would be one of them, though... Sen. Hillary...

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Doris Lessing: prize fighter (3quarksdaily)

Thu, 22 May 2008 11:12:58 GMT

... never suspect that whole continents of experience are there, just behind those ordinary faces.' In Lessing's case, you could never guess from her small but kind eyes that she hated her mother. More here.

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Lessing: Nobel win a 'disaster' (MyJoyonline)

Wed, 21 May 2008 10:04:23 GMT

Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing has said winning the prestigious award in 2007 had been a "bloody disaster".

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Alfred and Emily, by Doris Lessing Twenty Chickens for a Saddle, by Robyn Scott (The Independent)

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:00:01 GMT

Over the past decade, there has been a crop of books about growing up as a white child in Africa in the final years of white rule. Now the publication of Doris Lessing's powerful Alfred and Emily is a reminder that she has been visiting this theme for well over half a century, drawing on her girlhood in colonial Southern Rhodesia to write many of the books that brought her international...

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