Five Fat Hens - The Chicken and Egg Cookbook, by Tim Halket, is published by
Grub Street, priced pounds 18.99
From rat race to chicken shed; When Tim Hacket gave it all up he had no idea he could turn a passion for food into a hit cookbook. Zoe Chamberlain spoke to him
In fact, New
Grub Street has nothing to say on the subject of the English aesthetic movement, on its proponents in general, or on the ridicule they faced in contemporary periodicals (most notoriously in Punch) for their avant-garde practices--only on the conflict that some realist novelists of the 1880s experienced between their desire to emulate the "Zola" school of French naturalism and the British public's hostility toward such tastes.
New Grub Street: The 1901 Revised Text
Kenneth Baker is the author of George Washington's War in Caricature and Print (
Grub Street, 2009).
Aids to independence: a distant monarch, political factionalism, vainglorious commanders and the distraction of European enemies helped George Washington seal victory in the American War of Independence, writes Kenneth Baker, who explores the conflict through caricature and print
New
Grub Street (1891) is an unforgettable account of a novelist struggling to write when inspiration fails (Orwell found dais "the most impressive" of Gissing's novels, "also an upsetting and demoralizing book").
Remembering George Gissing
Published by:
Grub Street, London, 2001 (new edition), 301pp, 12.99 [pounds sterling].
Park: The Biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park
The present paper attempts to read Gissing's New
Grub Street as the product of a crisis in the British literary system towards the end of the nineteenth century.
Naturalism and modes of literary production in George Gissing's New Grub Street
It could be that Stanley was being paid by the word--a not uncommon arrangement on
Grub Street, where, lo these many years, he has made his residence.
Don't the Moon Look Lonesome: A Novel in Blues and Swing
In dealing with Religio Bibliopolae, Havenstein examines traces of Religio Medici in the 1691 work, only to lament the depredations of
Grub Street on its source materials.
Democratizing Sir Thomas Browne: "Religio Medici" and its Imitations & Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought. (Reviews)
Vegetarianism: A History, by Colin Spencer (
Grub Street, pounds 16.99).
Dr Vernon's Casebook: Ten top books to keep you healthy; COMMENT
They then formed
Grub Street Prods., creating the comedy "Wings," which spent seven years on NBC.
OBITUARIES
Grab a copy of his eponymous book (pounds 25,
Grub Street) and check out his fab fusion of traditional French techniques and Pacific Rim flavours.
Food: look out for..
It is fascinating to read about eighteenth century Georgian London with its
Grub Street, gin craze, streetwalkers, literary and theatrical stars, scams, scandals, disorder, and death.
Hogarth: A Life and a World
Their ruthless treatment of writers was often appalling; they set writers to work in the literary sweatshops of
Grub Street, paying them as little as possible while retaining publishing rights for as long as possible.
Buying into culture
He proposed `digging downward', viewing the Enlightenment from the bottom where a motley crew of
Grub Street hacks had once toiled in obscurity, only to be subsequently buried in the accumulated dust of the French national archives.(2) By blowing carefully, and so raising these men and women from the dead, Darnton not only reanimated a lost world, but also changed fundamentally certain conceptions of the Enlightenment and of its perennially vexing relationship to the French Revolution.
The counter-Enlightenment and the low-life of literature in pre-Revolutionary France
In Fielding's early play The Author's Farce, a
Grub Street subculture of phoney learning is brilliantly sent up: while the publisher Book-weight hurriedly commissions from one seedy freelance 'two Latin sedition motto and one Greek moral motto for pamphlets by tomorrow morning', a second hack brings in a new version of Virgil's Aeneid 'translated .
Henry Fielding's Novels and the Classical Tradition