A Blog of Bosh

I’m sorry to say that the main page of nonsenselit.org has been hacked. This has already happened a couple of times since last summer, but I’m not going to repair it this time as I no longer trust PostNuke enough: I’ve been thinking of moving to another CMS for some time and this is a [...]

In an attempt to get some idea of how many people are actually reading this blog I have decided to provide feed syndication through FeedBurner. Although the previous links will continue to work, if you use a feed aggregator to read A Blog of Bosh I suggest you update your subscription using the link provided [...]

I am late on this, as I read about Hu Wenliang’s “novel without words” only today; but I live in Italy and receive the TLS very late… so others have already discussed it: from the dismissing attitude of CHINAdaily
which concludes the article by “doubting Hu’s novel as hype” to the balanced report of BoingBoing, which [...]

Lear’s painting is expected to fetch between £400,000 and £600,000.

A new site will put online an old children’s audiobook every week in 2005

An essay from the TLS on a book by Andrew Birkin

A performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado in Sydney prompts a long article on their importance in The Age, 29 May 2004).Peter Craven writes:

Gilbert and Sullivan were the high watermark of the music of the English-speaking people in that long optimistic stretch of time, the 40 or so years before the First World War.There’s [...]

I have moved the blog from Blogger to WordPress

On 12 May 2004, Edward Lear’s birthday, I am at last releasing the new portal for Nonsense literature. The Lear pages do not contain anything new, updating and renewing them is my next project, but you should find lots of interesting material:

A new Peter Newell site containing, among many other things, the first republication of [...]

Literary nonsense of Sukumar Ray once again!
Dungaroo, Flipfloposaurus, Billy-Hawk Calf among other animals paid a peppy visit to a book store here and regaled book lovers!
They are, after all, characters from the nonsensical world created by legendary Bengali writer Sukumar Ray.
The occasion was the launch of ‘Abol Tabol: The Nonsense World of Sukumar Ray’ [...]