Sam Jordison
Sam Jordison is a co-director of Galley Beggar Press and the co-editor of the Crap Towns series of books. You can follow him @samjordison
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Tips links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
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Is JD Salinger's Franny and Zooey posturing or profound?Stagey and self-indulgent, the book’s prolix dialogue has left many critics far from impressed, but there is a moving human story here as well
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Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
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Russian literature webchat – as it happenedConcluding our look at The Master and Margarita, translator and Russian literature expert Hugh Aplin joined us to talk about Bulgakov’s novel and the difficulties found in translating Russian to English
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Virginia Woolf in Brontë country: picking apart the genius in Jane EyreJane Eyre is a challenge to the imagination – even the great modernist didn’t find it easy. It’s fascinating to read about the difficulties and delights she encountered
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Reading Jane Eyre: can we truly understand Charlotte Brontë or her heroine today?Brontë’s novel reveals a whirlwind of ideas on religion and gender – but can we honestly apply a 21st-century mindset to an 18th-century gothic classic?
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Tom Cruise will feel right at home in East Grinstead, Britain’s strangest townThe actor is moving to the UK home of Scientology and plans to help it ‘overshadow Buckingham Palace’. The locals won’t bat an eyelid
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Jane Eyre is April's Reading group bookCharlotte Brontë’s much-loved, much-hated masterpiece should generate some fascinating debate
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Save my city: the axeing of once great LancasterFirst came the floods. Now come the cuts. As many as 10 museums face closure around Lancaster. Our writer returns to his home town to find shops boarded up and locals angry at having their city cut from under their feet
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Webchat: Malcolm Edwards, JG Ballard's editor – as it happenedA luminary of the publishing world and a leading light in SF fandom, Malcolm Edwards has worked with many of the greats. He joined us to discuss JG Ballard and the state of science fiction
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Don Quixote or Jane Eyre – this month's reading group choice is yoursTwo great world classics published 200 years apart have anniversaries in April, so we’re opening the celebrations with a choice: should we read Cervantes or Charlotte Brontë?
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Nearly normal: JG Ballard's High-Rise and the 'uncanny valley'Doctors, lecturers, architects run amok in Ballard’s 1970s tower blocks, capitalising on our fear of the weirdness that walks among us
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Translating the Iliad: webchat with Caroline Alexander – as it happenedThe latest translator of Homer’s masterpiece – the first woman to recreate it in English – answered your questions about tackling this ancient epic
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JG Ballard is March's Reading group selection: help choose a novelTo mark the release of a film version of High Rise, our focus this time will be on the prolific master of uneasy speculative fiction. Please share suggestions for the best novel to select
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Achilles is brutal, vain, pitiless – and a true heroHomer’s idolised demigod in the Iliad has plenty of loathsome aspects – but remains a magnetic figure it’s hard not to admire
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Can Homer's Iliad speak across the centuries?Three millennia after its composition, there are many obstacles to understanding this pillar of western literature – but the effort is worth it
Reading group What to read before and after Franny and Zooey