http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/11/23/alex-abramovich/shining/ The Blog of the London Review of Books Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:00:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/11/23/alex-abramovich/shining/comment-page-1/#comment-369 Alex Abramovich Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:43:44 +0000 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/?p=2221#comment-369 Love the preview. And you & Jenny Diski are both right on about Bob Dylan, fernanda: Johnny Cash is to America as Diski is to the LRB; who in their right minds wouldn't do an album? Dylan FTW. Love the preview. And you & Jenny Diski are both right on about Bob Dylan, fernanda: Johnny Cash is to America as Diski is to the LRB; who in their right minds wouldn’t do an album? Dylan FTW.

]]> http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/11/23/alex-abramovich/shining/comment-page-1/#comment-360 fernanda Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:15:43 +0000 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/?p=2221#comment-360 also, this preview is going out as my holiday card. also, this preview is going out as my holiday card.

]]> http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/11/23/alex-abramovich/shining/comment-page-1/#comment-359 fernanda Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:15:06 +0000 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/?p=2221#comment-359 As annoying as Lish acolytes are, he probably saved those stories from schlock. I love the idea of Stephen King in an MFA fiction workshop. "Symmetry" and "a hard-won note of hope"? they'd rip him to shreds. I loved "Christine" when I was 12 but the man is as subtle as a sledgehammer. As annoying as Lish acolytes are, he probably saved those stories from schlock. I love the idea of Stephen King in an MFA fiction workshop. “Symmetry” and “a hard-won note of hope”? they’d rip him to shreds. I loved “Christine” when I was 12 but the man is as subtle as a sledgehammer.

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