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“... One​ of the prized possessions in Margaret Busby’s childhood home in Ghana was a steel-grey transistor radio. For much of the year she and her siblings attended boarding school in England, but during the holidays the radio connected her to ‘other cultures, other musics’. In an essay written for the Radio 3 programme Free Thinking in 2008, now reprinted as ‘The Joy of Radio’ in Part of the Story, a collection of Busby’s writings from the 1960s onwards, she recalls what happened when the radio broke ...”

“... Citizen to Elizabeth Stevens of Curtis Brown, who had the good idea of sending it to Allison and Busby, run by Margaret Busby, the UK’s first Black woman publisher. ‘Here was a group of people around my age who were talking of what they were going to do in the literary field,’ Emecheta remembered of their first ...”

“... women’s lives. Eustochia of Messina stretched her arms on a DIY rack she had constructed. St Margaret of Cortona bought herself a razor and was narrowly dissuaded from slicing through her nostrils and upper lip. St Angela of Foligno drank water contaminated by the putrefying flesh of a leper. And what St Francesca Romana did, I find I am not able to ...”

“... Got Rhythm’ with Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra is so much fun you would hardly know how much Busby Berkeley bullied her while directing it, except for the fact that she looks thin and manic in her cowgirl outfit), the non-musical narrative arc of the film fails to ignite. Girl Crazy is a rom-com that is neither funny nor romantic.As Garland grew up, she ...”

“... oh, definitely not Swift), as well as genuflections to the kaleidoscopic choreography of Busby Berkeley and the magnificent nothingness of ‘the great serious idol of Camp taste, Greta Garbo’), it was a tour de force that Partisan Review’s disputatious two-headed editorship was ambivalent about publishing (Phillips was in favour, Rahv ...”