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...keeping his deadbeat in-laws afloat. He died at 44, in 1894, having written his own requiem: "Under the wide and starry sky/ Dig the grave and let me lie/ Glad did I live and gladly die ..." McLynn tells his story with grace and skill, and only a dull reader will finish this biography without heading for the library to search out a complete edition of Stevenson's marvelous but now mostly unread short tales...
Writing Home gives the reader a sporting chance at understanding Bennett; it is as close to an autobiography as this gentleman is likely to vouchsafe. And in its evocations of Bennett's early years, it offers a virtual oratorio of embarrassment. His father, the butcher, played double bass in a jazz band and produced herb beer at home but succeeded at neither. His prim "Mam" made a religion of getting along; eventually she retreated into what Bennett calls "her flat, unmemoried days," like a meeker George III. Young Alan sought glamour in Leeds' double-decker trams, musty mystery...
...Crimson Reader Rep Concedes Errors, Clarifies Procedures...
...reason for this is that I, as reader representative, am not the voice of The Crimson. If that's what I were trying to be than I'd have no problem, whatever my direct involvement, in offering a purely Crimson-oriented take on what we all read...
What I want to be for you is an impartial third party, reading what The Crimson writes not only as a "Crimed," as we call ourselves here, but also as a reader, just like...