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Assassination: the most grimly familiar tale in US history (Times Online - Alan Coren)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:00:09 GMT

A few months ago Doris Lessing, the novelist and Nobel laureate, was discussing the life-expectancy of Barack Obama, should he win the race to the White House: “He would probably not last long, a black man in the position of president,” she mused. “They would kill him.”

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'The Summer Before the Dark' by Doris Lessing (Reading matters)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:11:12 GMT

Fiction - paperback; Flamingo; 236 pages; 2002. Having recently got over my fear of reading Doris Lessing, I decided to try another book by this Nobel Prize-winning author.The Summer Before the Dark was first published in 1970. At the time it must have been a very contemporary novel, and perhaps a little controversial, because its central theme is the role of women in society. The main...

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The Past Is Another Country (Tales from the Reading Room)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:38:20 GMT

I’ve been reading some great memoirs lately. Too lazy here to do proper reviews, but here are two extracts. From Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing ‘I hated my mother. I can remember that emotion from the start, which is easy to date by the birth of my brother. Those bundling, rough, unkind, impatient hands: I [...]

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On the Rebound (Easily Distracted)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:03:39 GMT

I’ve been quickly re-skimming Doris Lessing’s African Laughter, her musings on a number of trips to Zimbabwe after 1980. In 1988, reflecting on a friend’s growing disillusionment with official corruption, Lessing writes, “To be in love with a country or a political regime is a tricky business. You get your heart broken even more surely [...]

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Quotation: On humans blossoming by Doris Lessing (Gurteen Knowledge)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:06:45 GMT

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

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Defending the Self (Eve's Alexandria)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:46:25 GMT

I started reading the first volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography yesterday, quite by accident. In other words, I picked it up at work and then couldn't put it down. Readers of this blog will remember that Lessing and I have...

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The First and the Last: An Art Show and Doris Lessing's Novels (Recreating Eden: Mary Soderstrom's Blog) (Progressive Bloggers)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:12:00 GMT

... of the contrasts that the exhibit presented a lot these last few days as I try to make headway Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook. It is the first book scheduled for two of the book groups I lead (September 8 in English at the Pierrefonds Library and September 9 in French at the Bibliothèque Robert-Bourassa in Outremont) Although I read it years ago, I have found re-reading it quite...

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Ain't gonna study war no more (normblog)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:18:23 GMT

It's said only in interview, I know, a very few words off-the-cuff. And yet, it's what she says. She being Doris Lessing: In "Alfred and Emily" you re-imagine the lives of your parents, as if the first world war had...

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Doris Lessing Takes On Zimbabwe (Black Arts Diary)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:33:40 GMT

Doris Lessing (winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2007) on the political situation in Zimbabwe: The political degradation just goes on and on. I can’t imagine why somebody hasn’t assassinated Mugabe—such a wicked man, and he’s still alive. The trouble is, you see, he’s got a gang [of] people like himself who are just [...]

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Two Matter of More than Passing Literary Interest (Flos Carmeli)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:06:56 GMT

The Orwell Diaries Blog --Serialized as blog entries for the day appropriate to the diary, hitherto unpublished. And, the announcement of this year's Hugo Awards , featuring a novel by Michael Chabon. I know that Doris Lessing was at one time nominated (not certain that she won).

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Doris Lessing: At least the trains ran on time in Rhodesia (Afrigator)

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:49:57 GMT

... good things, like the railways and the post offices–the infrastructure, which is now destroyed. Lessing also wondered aloud why anyone has not yet assassinated Zimbabwe despot Robert Mugabe: I can’t imagine why somebody hasn’t assassinated Mugabe–such a wicked man, and he’s still alive. The trouble is, you see, he’s got a gang [of] people like himself who are just as bad as he is. When people...

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Doris Lessing Goes Under Review (Isak)

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:21:06 GMT

... shaped and contained fury, “Alfred and Emily” is also an extraordinary, unconventional addition to Lessing’s autobiography. She’s said she has written her last book (well, she has said a lot of silly things), but there isn’t the slightest tone of valediction or summing up here. That’s why she remains so vital: even in old age, she sounds as fierce and passionate as a girl.

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Doris Lessing interview (the Literary Saloon)

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:34:12 GMT

In Crusading With a Pen Amber Haq interviews Doris Lessing at Newsweek.

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Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing on Books and War (MSNBC.com: Newsweek Entertainment)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:40:53 GMT

Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing talks about the future of literature, the end of Robert Mugabe and the antiwar message in her new book.

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Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing on Books and War (MSNBC.com: Newsweek Society)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:40:53 GMT

Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing talks about the future of literature, the end of Robert Mugabe and the antiwar message in her new book.

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They May Not Mean to, but They Do (New York Times)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:29:54 GMT

Doris Lessing explores the lives of “these sick and half crazy people, my parents,” with unsentimental clarity.

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Book review: "Alfred and Emily," by Doris Lessing (International Herald Tribune)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:21:17 GMT

Lessing, at 88, again grapples with the meaning of her parents' lives.

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"Alfred and Emily": An imaginary do-over (Seattle Times)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:10:28 GMT

In "Alfred and Emily," Nobel laureate Doris Lessing captures a double exposure of her parents' lives — one that sticks to the facts, and another that imagines an alternative world for them.

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Doris Lessing (ChatzWorld - A World of Chat)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:44:50 GMT

"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself." More......

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Doris Lessing looks back on shadows and parents (International Herald Tribune)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:52:02 GMT

Lessing once declared that "fiction makes a better job of the truth" than straightforward reminiscence. This observation does not apply to her latest book.

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