Having a distinguished appointment to make, and with the whole English-speaking world to hunt in, [the English Department] came up with a coterie writer of minimum distinction
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 September 2013 12:09 (ten years ago) link
So his son Christopher has written a memoir which seems like a must read.
― Santa’s Got a Brand New Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 21:49 (two years ago) link
Some Sotobait right here:
She told me that he frequently embarrassed her by drinking too much, the spectacularly emblematic story here being the time my father managed, during a party at Dawn Powell’s home, to fall through a skylight.
― Santa’s Got a Brand New Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 December 2021 12:29 (two years ago) link
Falling through a spotlight sober happens all the time.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 December 2021 13:12 (two years ago) link