Category Archives: Justine
“The Room Seems to Have Come into Its Own at Last”: One Afternoon in the Library of Patrick Leigh Fermor (11 June 2011).
Maggie Rainey-Smith has been kind enough to share images and memories from her 7 November 2007 visit with the late Patrick Leigh Fermor. In a recent post at “A Curious Half Hour,” Maggie has published a set of photographs and … Continue reading
Lawrence Durrell Versus the Zombie Apocalypse: Justine Has Cameo Role in Madeleine Roux’s Allison Hewitt Is Trapped (18 January 2011).
Over the last fifty years, Lawrence Durrell’s books have achieved a kind of iconic status, making cameo appearances in numerous works by other writers, artists, musicians, and filmmakers. In Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch (1963), “boys in baggy sweaters and delightfully funky … Continue reading
Penguin USA set to release JUSTINE in Penguin INK series (31 May 2011).
Penguin USA will be releasing a re-design of Lawrence Durrell’s Justine on 31 May 2011. Artist Robert Ryan designed the jacket illustration for this release. Robert Ryan has been tattooing for eleven years. Taught in the classic traditional American style … Continue reading
