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How to Piss Off W. Somerset Maugham, and Other News
You shouldn’t have said that. Somerset Maugham in a portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1934. Beneath Picasso’s painting The Blue Room, infrared technology has revealed another painting, “a portrait of a man...
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Kingsley Amis’s “most unpleasant” hero. A still from the 1970 film version of Take a Girl Like You. It’s fair to say that in the late 1950s Kingsley Amis was riding high. In 1954, Lucky Jim had made...
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How to Piss Off W. Somerset Maugham, and Other News
You shouldn’t have said that. Somerset Maugham in a portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1934. Beneath Picasso’s painting The Blue Room, infrared technology has revealed another painting, “a portrait of a man...
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Something Serious
Kingsley Amis’s “most unpleasant” hero. A still from the 1970 film version of Take a Girl Like You. It’s fair to say that in the late 1950s Kingsley Amis was riding high. In 1954, Lucky Jim had made...
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Salka Viertel’s Forgotten Account of Old Hollywood
Salka Viertel with Greta Garbo. Back in the day (the late thirties and early forties), many of the Central European cultural émigrés in flight from Hitler’s depredations back home who’d found...
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