“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’

Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”


DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland ... Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin)


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26 October 2011

PANIC BUTTON POTPINOT HIT OF THE WEEK

DRINKSTER's free news bulletin service, The Panic Button (see right sidebar) has fizzed away with hits like we've rarely seen before. The most popular item in week # 2 is about the propensity of Californian pinotphiles to pack the odd puncheon with pot. Click the crop for the full dope on the new deal party drink.

2 comments:

meglet33 said...

An interesting post especially as it comes across the planet from a city where nice things can happen still maybe.

meglet33 said...

It's lovely to see such taste in a person! Thank you Philip. We enjoyed your company tres bien. Merci.