Iain Marshall
Iain Marshall on Four Books About Bicycles
Professional cycling is deeply rooted in the written word. All three grand tours – Spain's Vuelta, the Giro in Italy and the Tour de France – were created to boost flagging sales of newspapers.
In Italy it was La Gazzetta dello Sport that instigated the Giro d'Italia in 1908. John Foot, in Pedalare! Pedalare! A History of Italian Cycling, relies heavily on the contemporaneous
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'The trouble seems to be that we are not asked to read this author, reading being a thing of the past. We are asked to decode him.'
From the archive, Derek Mahon peruses the early short fiction of Thomas Pynchon.
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'There are at least two dozen members of the House of Commons today whose names I cannot read without laughing because I know what poseurs and place-seekers they are.'
From the archive, Christopher Hitchens on the Oxford Union.
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