Current reading: Harold Bloom on Shakespeare’s Falstaff and Anthony Burgess on the Elizabethan playwright Gervase Whitelady.

Excellent insights into Burgess and Shakespeare via the Burgess Foundation archive this lunchtime.

The next Unboxing event is Saturday 22 June. Highly recommended!

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Setting up for our Unboxing Anthony Burgess archive event. If you were quick enough to get a ticket, see you shortly.

'A new kind of man evolves, enslaved by engines of subliminal persuasion to ever-increasing consumption.' - Anthony Burgess in his intro to THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF J. G. BALLARD

Current reading: Harold Bloom on Shakespeare’s Falstaff and Anthony Burgess on the Elizabethan playwright Gervase Whitelady.

Adding a few Anthony Burgess paperbacks to the collection.

Cover artwork from various editions of Anthony Burgess's ABBA ABBA. This 1977 novel imagines the dying days of poet John Keats, and showcases Burgess’s translations of blasphemous sonnets by Roman poet Giuseppe Gioachino Belli. Images taken from books in the Burgess archive.

“A Clockwork Orange,” by Anthony Burgess.

I first read it when I was 12.

I was visiting Memphis, Tennessee, at the time.

It is written in a fictional futuristic English dialect. A reader must decode the novel’s language through context.

Reading this book made me smarter.

Is Shakespeare relevant? Anthony Burgess considers the evidence in this essay from the archive.
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Some of these early covers for Anthony Burgess novels are delightful.

Happy 460th Birthday #Shakespeare ! In this week's newsletter #AnthonyBurgess asks 'Is Shakespeare Relevant?'. He talks about hippies, Nixon, and the Black Panthers in this VERY RELEVANT article from 1970.

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Is Shakespeare relevant? Anthony Burgess considers the evidence in this essay from the archive.
anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/is-shakespea…

Some of these early covers for Anthony Burgess novels are delightful.

These are the Jane Austen novels owned by Anthony Burgess's first wife Llewela Wilson (usually known as Lynne). Lynne once fell ill on holiday in Morocco. To help her recover, William S. Burroughs read Austen to her in a sombre tone. Just what the doctor ordered.

Joyce Images was edited by Bob Cato and Greg Vitello. Anthony Burgess wrote the introduction three months before his death in November 1993.

Tnut anthony burgess: 'earthly powers'

fictional sweep through 20th century history, beautiful writing
like james joyce, but more accessible

Anthony Burgess worked as a British Army Education instructor in Gibraltar from 1943 until 1946.

Anthony Burgess enjoying a choc-ice.

There's a magnificent two-page review of THE DEVIL PREFERS MOZART -- the new Carcanet Press collection of Anthony Burgess's essays on music -- in this week's issue of The TLS