It's a better album than 'Stop Making Sense", though that's the one with all the plaudits.

Great title. I thought there'd be more Jamesian parody though

Very odd, almost aggressively inconsequential non-mystery. Late Innes prosaic elegance, but no "there" there.

Everyone's a critic ...

This deserved better.

The Name of This Band is: Hawking Teds

Oh really! Darwinistically?

The initial-letter progression in this headline, A [B] C D E F [GHIJK] L, is very Carsonian. Chapeau.

Train read.

Well I'm not a writer who sells very much: my first ed hbk will be the only one, I may or may not get a pbk and frankly every sale counts (or my publisher cd drop me(

Eek!

TELL EM ABOUT THE UNCANNY HONEY, HAUNTED MUMMY

... when you're gardening and also solving complicated mathematical puzzles?

I mean ...

First in a new series: great mathematicians and their even greater hats. Today: David Hilbert.

You're asking if an author needs to sell copies of his book?