#LiteraryAdventCalendar Day 9. Florence King's brilliant, scabrous memoir, 'Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady', starts with a quote from a terrible, flowery essay on 'Southern Womanhood'.
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#LiteraryAdventCalendar Day 10.
A first paragraph, this time. Armistead Maupin hits the ground running from the first word of 'Tales of the City' - who wouldn't want to read on?
#LiteraryAdventCalendar Day 11. In Saki's wonderfully acidic 'The Storyteller', a bachelor has to share a train compartment with three extremely bored children and their ineffectual aunt.
#LiteraryAdventCalendar Day 13.
A perfect build to an exquisite punchline from Father Ted, by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews. The parochial house gets a visit from senior nun, Sister Assumpta (click to see the whole thing):
#LiteraryAdventCalendar Day 14.
A little excerpt from one of Susie Steiner’s Manon Bradshaw novels; how many writers of police procedurals can produce not only a gripping plot but also brilliantly funny glimpses of a believable domestic life? What a star Susie was....
#LiteraryAdventCalendar Day 15.
Clive James in his role as TV critic, joyfully eviscerating 'The Man From Atlantis', a truly terrible 70s series starring Patrick Duffy, (who was also dreadful in 'Dallas'):
Perfection. Also grounded in truth without comedic exaggeration: Richard can only get me to remember events via food: Bay of Biscay ship-killing storm? Jamon Jamon crisps in La Coruna.
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A first paragraph, this time. Armistead Maupin hits the ground running from the first word of 'Tales of the City' - who wouldn't want to read on?
Alan Bennet pays tribute to Thora Hird.
A perfect build to an exquisite punchline from Father Ted, by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews. The parochial house gets a visit from senior nun, Sister Assumpta (click to see the whole thing):
A little excerpt from one of Susie Steiner’s Manon Bradshaw novels; how many writers of police procedurals can produce not only a gripping plot but also brilliantly funny glimpses of a believable domestic life? What a star Susie was....
Clive James in his role as TV critic, joyfully eviscerating 'The Man From Atlantis', a truly terrible 70s series starring Patrick Duffy, (who was also dreadful in 'Dallas'):