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bostonherald.com | Malcolm Forbes |Garrett Carr
One overcast Friday morning in 1973, a barrel containing a baby boy washes up on the shore of an Irish fishing town. The new arrival quickly causes a stir among the residents of Killybegs (hometown of author Garrett Carr): “Any fresh baby represented possibility but here was one with no parents, no history, a child who was entirely future.”Carr’s first novel for adults, “The Boy From the Sea,” shows how that future pans out for both the foundling and the family he becomes a part of.
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1 day ago | 
engelsbergideas.com | Malcolm Forbes
Mary Shelley in Bath, introduced by Fiona Sampson, Manderley Press, £19.99The birth of Frankenstein has become the stuff of literary legend. In 1816, the so-called ‘Year Without a Summer’, 18-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin – not yet Mary Shelley – travelled to Switzerland with her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley, their baby son William and her stepsister Claire Clairmont.
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1 day ago | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Malcolm Forbes
By Malcolm Forbes, The Minnesota Star Tribune One overcast Friday morning in 1973, a barrel containing a baby boy washes up on the shore of an Irish fishing town. The new arrival quickly causes a stir among the residents of Killybegs (hometown of author Garrett Carr): "Any fresh baby represented possibility but here was one with no parents, no history, a child who was entirely future."
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1 day ago | 
thederrick.com | Malcolm Forbes
One overcast Friday morning in 1973, a barrel containing a baby boy washes up on the shore of an Irish fishing town. The new arrival quickly causes a stir among the residents of Killybegs (hometown of author Garrett Carr): “Any fresh baby represented possibility but here was one with no parents, no history, a child who was entirely future.” Thank you for reading! Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading.
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1 day ago | 
miamiherald.com | Malcolm Forbes
One overcast Friday morning in 1973, a barrel containing a baby boy washes up on the shore of an Irish fishing town. The new arrival quickly causes a stir among the residents of Killybegs (hometown of author Garrett Carr): "Any fresh baby represented possibility but here was one with no parents, no history, a child who was entirely future."Carr's first novel for adults, "The Boy From the Sea," shows how that future pans out for both the foundling and the family he becomes a part of.
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1 day ago | 
dailygazette.com | Malcolm Forbes
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1 week ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Malcolm Forbes
‘The Director’ revisits a filmmaker’s deal with the devil during WWII (washingtonpost.com) ‘The Director’ revisits a filmmaker’s deal with the devil during WWII By Malcolm Forbes 2025050615355800 Early in Daniel Kehlmann's new novel, a man meets, and praises, the Austrian film director G. W. Pabst, who is living in exile from the Nazis. "You are a master," the man says.
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2 weeks ago | 
startribune.com | Malcolm Forbes
One overcast Friday morning in 1973, a barrel containing a baby boy washes up on the shore of an Irish fishing town. The new arrival quickly causes a stir among the residents of Killybegs (hometown of author Garrett Carr): "Any fresh baby represented possibility but here was one with no parents, no history, a child who was entirely future." Carr's first novel for adults, "The Boy From the Sea," shows how that future pans out for both the foundling and the family he becomes a part of.
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2 weeks ago | 
stltoday.com | Malcolm Forbes
For almost four decades now, Jonathan Coe has employed wit, insight and scalpel-sharp satire to deliver compulsive, incisive novels that chroni- cle British lives and explore facets of Britishness. Coe’s 1994 breakthrough, “The Winshaw Legacy,” laid bare the rapacious appetites and other grotesque qualities of “the meanest, greediest, cruelest” upper-class family. “Middle England” (2018) depicted a disunited kingdom after the Brexit vote.
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3 weeks ago | 
engelsbergideas.com | Malcolm Forbes
One hundred years ago, Graham Greene was an Oxford history undergraduate whose standard student activities were complemented, and often complicated, by a dizzying range of extracurricular pursuits. When not attending tutorials, writing essays or getting drunk, Greene was dabbling in acting, flirting with espionage, taking part in debates, editing a literary magazine, planning a programme for the BBC, falling headlong in love, and chancing his luck and risking his life by playing Russian roulette.
