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July 04, 2014

Book Review: Facts and Inventions

July 04, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

The boozy, gossipy author of "The Life of Johnson" was a working journalist-hack for the whole of his life, but hardly any of that material has been cleaned up and presented to the modern reader - until now, in a groundbreaking new volume from Yale University Press

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fact and inventions, james boswell, July 2014, open letters weekly, paul tankard, the journalism of james boswell
April 14, 2011

Book Review: Boswell's London Journal

April 14, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

In his early 20s, James Boswell kept a journal of his riotous, entertaining life in London, and it's now in an updated version from Penguin Classics.

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April 2011, frederick pottle, gordon turnbull, james boswell, london journal, penguin classics
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