Eclipse: The story of the rogue, the madam, and the horse that changed racing
march 2009 by jnchapel
Telegraph review of recently published Eclipse biography by Nicholas Clee makes the work sound as though it's a bit of modern Trollope, centered around a great horse, who was, even towards the end of his life, hard used: "In the end, even the mighty Eclipse became what can only be described as shagged out, and in the declining months of his 24-year-life was conveyed from mare to mare in what was almost certainly the first ever horsebox."
horseracing
great-horses
biography
eclipse
march 2009 by jnchapel
Life and Letters: The Unfinished: Reporting & Essays
march 2009 by jnchapel
D.T. Max's exhaustive early review of DFW's life and work.
david-foster-wallace
culture
writing
books
literature
biography
depression
essays
march 2009 by jnchapel
LRB - Hilary Mantel - Frocks and Shocks
may 2008 by jnchapel
"There are some lives we read backwards, from bloody exit to obscure entrance, and Jane’s is one of them."
english-history
biography
tudors
writing
may 2008 by jnchapel
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