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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the icy water, James Cameron is rereleasing ‘Titanic’ in 3D with a revised night scene, after an American astronomer accused the original film of having the wrong star field for the time and date, 4.20am on April 15, 1912. Cameron is a famous perfectionist, and [...] Let’s have a column that’s actually about writing for a change! Everyone has different methods of working, but I’ve noticed that mine confounds a lot of people. My enthusiasm for writing a new book starts high – I have the concept and I’m very excited. Then I have to flesh it out into an outline; the [...] Last year I wrote a story called ‘Killing The Cook’, in which an inner city housewife attempts to kill the TV chef Nigella Lawson because she is unable to live up to the cook’s demandingly upmarket lifestyle. The story was inspired by a real problem. In one of Lawson’s cookbooks she said ‘Get your butcher to [...] Every day on my way to work I had to pass the Protein Man, Stanley Green. Remember him? He used to walk up and down London’s Oxford Street booming out in a sonorous voice ‘Buy my book’, and carried a sign proclaiming the dangers of proteins, saying that they caused lust. His solution was “protein [...] #gallery-1 { How did London go from having famously bad food to topping world cuisine charts? After the war, Associated British Cafeterias (ABCs) sought to provide cheap meals for those on rations and drastic budgets, because the government was concerned about [...] DV8, the risk-taking dance group that grew into a political theatre movement, are 25 years old now, and are currently appearing in a sell-out show at the National. In the last few years they’ve moved from sexual politics into a darker world arena. Their latest piece, like the last, is entirely constructed from verbatim quotes, [...] So, the paper version of the EB has reached an end. after 244 years, dozens of editions and more than 7 million sets sold, no new editions will be put to paper. The 32 volumes of the 2010 installment were the last. Future editions will live exclusively online. Wikipedia English has 3.9m articles. The Britannica [...] This is a weird story. The last remaining one hundred Ruddy Ducks in England are to be shot at great expense by a government agency because the Spanish have complained that they interbreed with their own rare white-headed ducks. So far the Spaniards have killed 6,500 Ruddy Ducks at a cost of over £5 million, [...] I think I have a fairly balanced opinion of myself. I’m a middle-aged, midlist author who was able to start writing full-time only because I surrendered my so-called best decades to hard work in a day job. I don’t think I’m having a crisis, which I guess is a good sign. But a number of new [...] Superheroes are real – best kites ever. |
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