Jane Is Trying, by Isy Suttie
12/08/2021 … Vladimir Nabokov famously said: ‘The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
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12/08/2021 … Vladimir Nabokov famously said: ‘The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
29/07/2021 … I’m not sure Cack-Handed is the perfect title for Gina Yashere’s memoirs.
08/07/2021 … It’s testament to the enduring appeal of Morecambe and Wise that I already have nine books about them on my shelf.
24/06/2021 … There’s no need to ask where Have I Got News For You and Horrible Histories writer Dave Cohen (or rather, ‘David J Cohen’, now he’s…
24/05/2021 … In 2015, showbiz historian Kilph Nesteroff wrote The Comedians, a near-definitive and thoroughly entertaining account of the evolution of American comedy, from…
11/05/2021 … A comedian writing about cake might sound twee, or evoke the sort of defiant hedonism that defines much of Jo Brand’s work.
26/04/2021 … ‘I wish there had been a book like this for me growing up,’ stand-up Tez Ilyas comments in the foreword to his newly published teenage diaries.
15/03/2021 … Simon Taylor was a young, jobbing comedian on the Melbourne stand-up scene when a one-night stand led to a paternity scare that forced him to confront a different…
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