The Ink Trade

Selected Journalism 1961 - 1993

Anthony Burgess, Will Carr

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
• Year: 2018
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781784103958
• Subtopic: Journalism
• Index: Literature

"The title of journalist is probably very noble, but I lay no real claim to it. I am, I think, a novelist and a musical composer manqué: I make no other pretensions …" (Anthony Burgess)
Despite his modest claims, Anthony Burgess was an enormously prolific journalist. During his life he published two substantial collections of journalism, Urgent Copy (1968) and H omage to Qwert Yuiop (1986); a posthumous collection of occasional essays, One Man's Chorus, was published in 1998. These collections are now out of print, and Burgess's journalism, a key part of his prodigious output, has fallen into neglect.
The Ink Trade is a brilliant new selection of his reviews and articles, some savage, some crucial in establishing new writers, new tastes and trends. Between 1959 and his death in 1993 Burgess contributed to newspapers and periodicals around the world: he was provocative, informative, entertaining, extravagant, and always readable.
Editor Will Carr presents a wealth of unpublished and uncollected material.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• About the Author
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Poetry for a Tiny Room
• Spring’s Fruits in Autumn
• The Corruption of the Exotic
• Why, This is Hell
• On the End of Every Fork
• Into the Mass Mangle
• Bitter-sweet Savour
• The Big Daddy of the Beats
• The Seventeenth Novel
• Here Parla Man Marcommunish
• The Book is Not for Reading
• The Comedy of Ultimate Truths
• Europe’s Day of the Dead
• Surprise from the Grave
• Last Exit to Brooklyn
• A Good Read
• Bless Thee, Bottom?
• Like Mr Priestley, Enjoying It
• The Waste Land
• My Life and Times
• On Lengthy Matters
• Last of the Literary Dandies
• Five-Finger Exercises
• Creeping Towards Salvation
• A Very Blasphemous Fallacy
• Glittering Prizes
• A Talent to Remember
• Jong in Triumph
• Partridge in a Word Tree
• A Movie that Changed my Life
• By-products of the Ink Trade
• Pilgrimage
• Finks and Winchells
• The School of Jesuits
• Last Embers of Modernism
• Medieval Sherlock
• The Lords of Limit
• Locutions of Sex and Death
• Why I Write
• Still Life
• The Anachronist Strikes Back
• Spirit of Cervantes
• Defector as Hero
• Where Sex Meets Self-Improvement
• The Academic Critic and the Living Writer
• The Master of Erudite Silence
• Verbal Subversions
• Eye of a Stranger
• Wilde with all Regret
• Mr Gibbon and the Huns
• The Literature Industry
• The Man Who Invented Himself
• Bunn in the Oven
• A Strong Whiff of Kif from Tangier
• The Life of Graham Greene
• Joyce as Novelist
• Can Art be Immoral?
• Getting the Language Right
• Stop the Clock on Violence
• Confessions of the Hack Trade
• Index