The Tumbrel Diaries

Friday, June 4, 2010

Counting to the power of eight

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I have been fossicking through the mountains of paper that gradually accumulated while I was researching and writing The Finger: A Handbook ...
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Drinking champagne from a lady's satin slipper III

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Wha t is beginning to emerge from my inquiries into the custom of drinking champagne from a lady’s white satin slipper is that this weird cr...
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Scandal

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There are relatively few scandalous subtopics in my new book, The Finger: A Handbook , except for some damaging rumors that circulated in Lo...

Drinking champagne from a lady's satin slipper II

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Alas there was obviously no convenient berth in my new book, The Finger: A Handbook , for an exhaustive or even cursory account of the bizar...
Monday, May 31, 2010

Drinking champagne from a lady's satin slipper

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After A Brief History of the Smile and The Finger: A Handbook , lately published in New York by Farrar, Straus and Giroux , I am not incl...

Further chair

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A major development in respect of the chair. Using his new laptop computer and a wireless internet connection, Uncle Tony writes from a c...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

The filbert nail

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Most authors run the risk of tackling a subtopic in far greater detail than is necessary, and need to be rescued from that hazardous path by...

The chair again

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The chair in no way relates to my new book, The Finger: A Handbook —an ideal gift, incidentally, for typists, harpists, pianists, erotoman...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

The chair

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A few months ago, before my new book, The Finger: A Handbook , was published in New York by Farrar, Straus and Giroux , I inherited from my...
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Angus Trumble
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Angus Trumble will begin work as Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia on February 10, 2014. He has been Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, since May 2003. Angus is the author of a number of books, including A Brief History of the Smile and The Finger: A Handbook, which has lately been published in New York by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, in London by Yale University Press, and by Melbourne University Publishing. He is an occasional contributor to the Burlington Magazine, Apollo, and a more regular one to The Times Literary Supplement, the Australian Book Review, and Esopus Magazine.
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