Kasia Boddy

Kasia Boddy · Pretty Garrotte: Why we need Dorothy Parker While she always insisted that she wasn’t a ‘real’ critic, Parker is more astute than most on matters of style,...

‘While she always insisted that she wasn’t a “real” critic, Parker is more astute than most on matters of style, the literary quality for which repetition is both most necessary and most risky.’

Kasia Boddy on Dorothy Parker, from our new issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Kasia Boddy · Up and Down Riverside Drive: Lore Segal’s Luck Those who know Segal’s work are familiar with the story of her childhood, what she called, with some weariness, her...

‘Twenty years ago, she compared herself to the Ancient Mariner who “in his latter days got really tired of rehearsing his old trauma”. But, like him, she kept telling it.’

Kasia Boddy on Lore Segal: novelist, memoirist and Kindertransport child: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Great letter,readjusting misleading distortions written @dailytelegraph.bsky.social re English Studies/discipline more generally 👏🏽 @englishassociation.bsky.social @bobeaglestone.bsky.social
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