Grub Street Irregular: Scenes from Literary Life

Grub Street Irregular: Scenes from Literary Life
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An engaging, wickedly funny and splendidly anecdotal memoir of a career spent among writers, agents, publishers and bookmen and women of every stripe.Jeremy Lewis's first memoir, 'Playing for Time', was hailed by James Lees-Milne as 'the funniest and best written book I've read for years.' His second, 'Kindred Spirits', was described by John Carey as 'sheer pleasure from start to finish'. Now he has written a third autobiographical account of his encounters with literary figures over the last two decades which fittingly caps the previous two.A rich sense of the absurd and a profound understanding of the extreme comicality of life, together with a delight in the oddities of human behaviour, are the hallmarks of Jeremy Lewis's world. Bumbling figures of the book trade and eccentric luminaries of Grub Street alike are grist to his mill; his characterisations of André Deutsch, James Lees-Milne, Alan Ross, Richard Cobb, Barbara Skelton and dozens of others – are written with huge warmth and affection.Seldom has modern literary life been described with such a sense of relish and enjoyment; and seldom has the reader been so richly entertained by a gallery of eccentric portraits.

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Jeremy Lewis. Grub Street Irregular: Scenes from Literary Life

Grub Street Irregular. Jeremy Lewis

Table of Contents

ONE A Foot in the Door

TWO Rogues’ Gallery

THREE No More Long Lunches

FOUR Wielding the Blue Pencil

FIVE A Cautionary Tale

SIX Ghostly Presence

SEVEN Muscular Prose

EIGHT The Melon-Shaped Grin

NINE Trade Secrets

TEN Temporary Postings

ELEVEN Critical Times

TWELVE Oldies and Others

THIRTEEN Odds and Sods

FOURTEEN The Reluctant Biographer

FIFTEEN Footnotes

SIXTEEN The Sage of Trenarren

SEVENTEEN Battling with Barbara

EIGHTEEN Conversing in Como

NINETEEN On Safari

TWENTY Auschwitz Visit

TWENTY-ONE De Mortuis

TWENTY-TWO The Loot

TWENTY-THREE Peter Gunn

TWENTY-FOUR Closing Time

An Explanation, and Acknowledgements

By the same author

Copyright

About the Publisher

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ToAmy Freston(soprano supreme)andmy sons-in-lawTom Deards and Henry Dimbleby(inessential background reading)

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21 De Mortuis

22 The Loot

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