(On another note, I could not endorse Ben Brantley's review of The Pride of Parnell Street, which I saw earlier this week - the performers were doing their best, they were really very good, and the language is gorgeous, but there seemed to be absolutely no reason the piece could not as well have been a short story as a play!)
Times trifecta: Jonathan Lethem on J.G. Ballard.
Finally, Christian House profiles William Boyd at the Independent - Boyd is in any case one of my favorite writers (annoyingly his new book will not be published in the U.S. till January - I might be due an Amazon UK order...), but I leave you with these excellent lines:
London, he once wrote, poisoned him with insomnia and allergies. He declared it "a tax my body has to pay if I want to live in London – the most interesting city on the planet".
Having myself been irritated by UK-to-US publication delays this year already for Ishiguro, Byatt, and Mantel, I feel it's my duty to remind you that the Book Depository in the UK offers free worldwide shipping . . .
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