“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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25 February 2016

PRESIDENT'S DAY: BELATED NODS FROM OZ

Matters of state being what they are, the DRINKSTER's people have only just managed to advise that President's Day, the third Monday of February, was ten days back. So while our people in Oz struggle through the files trying to work out who the president actually is, we felt obliged to congratulate the two most likely candidates. Keep your buns on the cycle. Kinky and Van Dyke with Thomas Paine's dog, Scents.
 
 

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