Ian Sansom

Ian Sansom’s most recent book is Paper: An Elegy. The Norfolk Mystery, the first novel in a new series, The County Guides, to be published by Fourth Estate, comes out in June.

In the LRB Archive:

• Somebody Shoot at Me!: Woody Guthrie’s Novel · 9 May 2013

  • House of Earth: A Novel by Woody Guthrie

• Build Your Cabin: ‘Caribou Island’ · 3 March 2011

  • Caribou Island by David Vann

• Absolutely Bleedin’ Obvious: Will Self · 6 July 2006

  • The Book of Dave by Will Self

• Very like St Paul: Johnny Cash · 9 March 2006

  • The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend by Steve Turner
  • Walk the Line directed by James Mangold

• Whamming: a novel about work · 2 December 2004

  • Some Great Thing by Colin McAdam

• Every Rusty Hint: Anthony Powell · 21 October 2004

  • Anthony Powell: A Life by Michael Barber

• Diary: I was a teenage evangelist · 8 July 2004

• His Own Peak: John Fowles’s diary · 6 May 2004

  • John Fowles: The Journals, Vol. I edited by Charles Drazin
  • John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds by Eileen Warburton

• Omdamniverous: D.J. Enright · 25 September 2003

  • Injury Time: A Memoir by D.J. Enright

• Happy Knack: Betjeman · 20 February 2003

  • John Betjeman: New Fame, New Love by Bevis Hillier

• Smorgasbits: Jim Crace · 15 November 2001

  • The Devil's Larder by Jim Crace

• Emotional Sushi: Tony, Nick and Simon · 9 August 2001

  • One for My Baby by Tony Parsons
  • How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
  • Little Green Man by Simon Armitage

• Through Plate-Glass: Jonathan Coe · 10 May 2001

  • The Rotters’ Club by Jonathan Coe

• Shareware: Dave Eggers · 16 November 2000

  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

• What’s this?: A. Alvarez · 24 August 2000

  • Where Did It All Go Right? by A. Alvarez

• A Susceptible Man: The Unhappy Laureate · 4 March 1999

  • Living in Time: The Poetry of C. Day Lewis by Albert Gelpi

• Half-Timbering, Homosexuality and Whingeing: Julian Barnes · 1 October 1998

  • England, England by Julian Barnes

• ‘I was there, I saw it’: Ted Hughes · 19 February 1998

  • Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

• Fanfares · 11 December 1997

  • The Bounty by Derek Walcott

• Bobby-Dazzling · 17 July 1997

  • W.H. Auden: Prose 1926-38, Essays and Reviews and Travel Books in Prose and Verse edited by Edward Mendelson

• All the Cultural Bases · 20 March 1997

  • Moon Country: Further Reports from Iceland by Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell

• Cheesespreadology · 7 March 1996

  • Garbage by A.R. Ammons
  • Tape for the Turn of the Year by A.R. Ammons
  • Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow by August Kleinzahler
  • The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs by Charles Simic
  • Frightening Toys by Charles Simic
  • The Ghost of Eden by Chase Twichell

• Wayne’s World · 6 July 1995

  • Selected Poems by Carol Ann Duffy

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