Kasia Boddy
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‘While she always insisted that she wasn’t a “real” critic, Parker is more astute than most on matters of style, the literary quality for which repetition is both most necessary and most risky.’
Kasia Boddy on Dorothy Parker, from our new issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kasia Boddy on Dorothy Parker, from our new issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kasia Boddy · Pretty Garrotte: Why we need Dorothy Parker
While she always insisted that she wasn’t a ‘real’ critic, Parker is more astute than most on matters of style,...
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September 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
‘While she always insisted that she wasn’t a “real” critic, Parker is more astute than most on matters of style, the literary quality for which repetition is both most necessary and most risky.’
Kasia Boddy on Dorothy Parker, from our new issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kasia Boddy on Dorothy Parker, from our new issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘Twenty years ago, she compared herself to the Ancient Mariner who “in his latter days got really tired of rehearsing his old trauma”. But, like him, she kept telling it.’
Kasia Boddy on Lore Segal: novelist, memoirist and Kindertransport child: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kasia Boddy on Lore Segal: novelist, memoirist and Kindertransport child: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kasia Boddy · Up and Down Riverside Drive: Lore Segal’s Luck
Those who know Segal’s work are familiar with the story of her childhood, what she called, with some weariness, her...
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December 9, 2024 at 5:17 PM
‘Twenty years ago, she compared herself to the Ancient Mariner who “in his latter days got really tired of rehearsing his old trauma”. But, like him, she kept telling it.’
Kasia Boddy on Lore Segal: novelist, memoirist and Kindertransport child: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kasia Boddy on Lore Segal: novelist, memoirist and Kindertransport child: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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December 8, 2024 at 6:49 AM
And download this one for office doors & classroom walls.
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Great letter,readjusting misleading distortions written @dailytelegraph.bsky.social re English Studies/discipline more generally 👏🏽 @englishassociation.bsky.social @bobeaglestone.bsky.social
Katherine Baxter @clarelees.bsky.social @gailmarshall.bsky.social @andrewmacrae.bsky.social
Katherine Baxter @clarelees.bsky.social @gailmarshall.bsky.social @andrewmacrae.bsky.social
December 8, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Great letter,readjusting misleading distortions written @dailytelegraph.bsky.social re English Studies/discipline more generally 👏🏽 @englishassociation.bsky.social @bobeaglestone.bsky.social
Katherine Baxter @clarelees.bsky.social @gailmarshall.bsky.social @andrewmacrae.bsky.social
Katherine Baxter @clarelees.bsky.social @gailmarshall.bsky.social @andrewmacrae.bsky.social