The Truth About Lies
Blog URL http://jim-murdoch.blogspot.com/
Located Glasgow, Lanarkshire United Kingdom
Tags writing, literature, poetry, Scottish, book reviews, language
Scottish author Jim Murdoch discusses writing, his own and other authors, and muses at length about his fascination with the perversity of language. Veering from the nostalgic to the acerbic his blog will amuse anyone with a love of language.
Latest Blog Posts
- Death of a Superhero on Nov 23, 2009 in Freddie Highmore book review Superman McCarten
Not since Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum has the pains of growing up been rendered this powerfully – Blick, Zurich I'm a kid at heart. Any book with the word 'superhero' in the title, the tag line, the blurb or in a review of the aforementioned...
- English in its underwear on Nov 19, 2009 in Glaswegian Doric Scottish Lallans Glasgow
Scots is English in its underwear. It's difficult to be pretentious in a language like that. - William McIlvanney McIlvanney has pointed out more than once that the lower down the social ladder you get, the more metaphorical, the more i...
- The Wrong Miracle on Nov 16, 2009 in Liz Gallagher book review Salt poetry
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar – Pablo Picasso This is book about ordinary things, getting you hair done, having breakfast, going to church and eating gobstoppers. It's about ch...
- Beckett the tinkerer (part two) on Nov 12, 2009 in Beckett What Where director
Here’s a link to Part one if you missed it. What Where was Beckett's last play produced following a request for a new work for the 1983 Autumn Festival in Graz, Austria. It was written between February and March 1983 initially in French...
- The Search on Nov 9, 2009 in Maureen Myant book review Holocaust Striped Pyjamas
Before I get down to the nitty-gritty of reviewing this novel we need a short history lesson: Lidice (German: Liditz) is a village in the Czech Republic just north-west of Prague. It is built on the site of a previous village of the same...
- Beckett the tinkerer (part one) on Nov 5, 2009 in Beckett What Where director
We're not entirely restrictive. We're not . . . conservers of museum pieces. Not at all. — Edward Beckett There is a school of thought (passionately held by many) that holds that it is tantamount to sacrilege to tamper with one of...
- Travels in the Scriptorium Part I on Nov 2, 2009 in Auster book review
