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St Aubyn for me too. Can you add a poll, Stewart?

Nathanael West is one of the ones that got away. Born in 1903, he died in 1940 when he crashed his car on return from his honeymoon, leaving four short works of fiction. His best known is The Day of the Locust (1939), a satire on Hollywood which I haven't read, and which is usually packaged in...

I see the Author Discussion and Fiction Discussion forums are looking very neat and orderly - you been hard at work already, Stewart? Good stuff.

I'm surprised Stewart hasn't read (or bought) this one yet, as it's a shiny new Penguin Modern Classic... Actually, I might look it out myself... Thanks for the review, DiscoDan!

A thread for us to post occasional incidents in the news which show the best of natural selection at work, with people who selflessly try to remove themselves from the gene pool to avoid their stupidity from being passed down to future generations. Here's one who narrowly missed it. A...

True, and while I'm sad to see any contributing members go, I do wonder about their reasons for doing so. What's the difference between Stewart as a mouthy member and Stewart as a mouthy moderator? (In fact, politics fans, sudden power after years in opposition usually breeds a new...

Perfectly! With Ishiguro the story is always at least as much in the way it's told to us (and what's not being said) as in what's being said.

Hey hang on, Stewart! If you're now banning and removing spam with the same assiduity with which you once identified and pilloried it, that means it won't be there any more for the rest of us to laugh at! Every silver lining eh...

For the record, is it really sarcasm that Stewart is allegedly guilty of? Sarcasm to me means saying the opposite of what you mean ("That's a really interesting post, Shade! Thanks for sharing!") whereas to me Stewart's defining characteristic is less sarcasm than not suffering fools gladly...

*Knocks door* So... is it safe for non-initiates to come in here now? Or should we start a new Nabokov thread for those (like me) who like a bit of Vlad but feel intimidated by the 52 pages of posts here?

Oh by the way Stewart, someone from the Nabokov threads - I can't remember who, alas! - asked me to pass on a message, saying Congratulations on your appointment! At least I think that was the message: the line was kind of corrupted...

Good luck with the new role, Stewart! Now you can be the recipient of complaints instead of the instigator... :p

I got about a third through it and gave up, mmichelle. And I say that as a big Jacobson fan: any of his last four novels (from No More Mr Nice Guy to The Making of Henry) are better than Kalooki, in my opinion.

And judging by your writing, Wolfie, what the hell would you know about exciting and innovative literature? If I've misrepresented you in the extracts I've chosen, no doubt you can post something of yours that is incontrovertibly great (you know, the way Paz and Sexton are incontrovertibly the...

I agree with this. (Though to be fair to Stewart, he did say encourage consistent titling of threads rather than enforce.)

Hm. Is it E.L. Doctorow (whose Book of Daniel I've just finished reading)?

Well done mehastings. Highsmith is well worth a read, though Strangers on a Train is one of the few I haven't read yet.

Yes, one of her books was made into a film by Hitchcock.