“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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09 October 2014

AI WEIWEI ON CHINA'S NEW RICH

Grape, by Ai Weiwei: Artist not in residence is The Economist's headline: because the great Chinese artist is not permitted to leave China on account of his bad attitude, he has designed this major retrospective exhibition in Blenheim Palace, Churchill's birthplace, digitally, from afar. The show is loaded with wry comments on the China's new hyper-wealthy ruling class. Looks like another handy cultural backgrounder for those aiming to sell wine in China. If you're in the UK, go check it out!

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