tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249798928755398547.post8329082549324757374..comments2024-03-01T10:49:12.079-05:00Comments on 'Hear The Boat Sing': Eric Linklater's Rowing PoetHTBS editor Göran R Buckhornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09996970312143298372noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249798928755398547.post-30558437888407144962010-05-03T11:51:34.868-04:002010-05-03T11:51:34.868-04:00Dear Vincent, I am happy to hear that there is som...Dear Vincent, I am happy to hear that there is someone out there reading Eric Linklater’s works. When I wrote an essay about his short-story “The Three Poets”, which was published in his “Sealskin Trousers and other stories” (1947), I read his three autobiographies and some of his other books, and I enjoyed them a lot. For my essay, I also read Michael Parnell’s “Eric Linklater: A Critical Biography” (1984), which you nowadays can find terribly cheap on the web. The other day, I read that Eric Linklater’s son, Andro Linklater, published a new book last year, “An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson”. And his other son, Magnus, is still writing columns for The Times in London.HTBS editor Göran R Buckhornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09996970312143298372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249798928755398547.post-71262537227229598042010-05-03T05:09:31.860-04:002010-05-03T05:09:31.860-04:00Does anyone read Eric Linklater nowadays? I asked ...Does anyone read Eric Linklater nowadays? I asked the same question and that is how I found you. Well, I do. <i>Juan in America</i> is a brilliant satire on the Prohibition era. I'm currently reading <i>A Year of Space</i>, a memoir covering Linklater's post-Korean War trip to the Far East and the Antipodes. That its views are now very dated is part of the attraction but the whole thing is carried along by his vivid and meticulous writing.Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297306807695767580noreply@blogger.com