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Owen Marshall

August 21st 2011 07:47

Though Owen Marshall is one of New Zealand's most celebrated short story writers, I

haven't read many of his books...as with many NZ writers there's a tendency to the morose running through his work, a kind of gloom that overshadows the stories. After a while this makes reading rather drear. It must be something in the NZ psyche, I think, though occasionally we produce literature that's actually funny.

Anyway, here are a couple of quotes from his book, The Master of Big Jingles. The first quote comes from the title story:
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Noel Coward quote...

August 8th 2011 06:39

At present I'm reading William Marchant's book about Noel Coward: The Privilege of His Company. It's primarily a series of conversations between Coward and Marchant. The latter was privilege to have Coward as his theatrical mentor, and though Marchant isn't particularly well-known as a stage writer (he had a couple of successful plays and some television pieces) he proved to be an excellent recorder of Coward's conversations. Marchant notes that he took notes on all sorts of things and pulled these together to write the book; however it was done, it has been done well.

Here's a short snippet from page 209 that comes at the end of a conversation about the way to make sure the audience gets a laugh line - and laughs. And if it doesn't, what to do about it. The speaker is Coward himself.
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