Quarterly Magazine
Some recent “taster” articles from ASON
A Sort of Newsletter is a hard-copy publication delivered through the letter boxes of Friends of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust. Here, however, we make accessible to a wider readership a number of articles from recent issues.
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Greene’s songs
Greene’s songs
A query from Andraž Gombač, an editor at the Slovenian publishing house Beletrina, concerning a snatch of a song lyric in Greene’s 1936 novel A Gun for Sale sent ASON editor Mike Hill off in pursuit of music themes and references in other Greene works. To his surprise, he discovered that Greene had a ‘penchant for writing song lyrics’. Here, you can follow Mike’s musical sleuthing.
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Reading Greene in a world of glass and steel
Reading Greene in a world of glass and steel
Zoeb Matin, our regular correspondent from India, “Our Man in Mumbai/Bombay”, shares with us his Graham Greene reading journey – including how he was a little late discovering Greene-land. However, having got there, Greene’s works, his take on life and his general world view have resonated strongly with Zoeb’s own outlook and helped sustain him as he navigates his way through a career ‘in a world of glass and steel’.
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Lucius – the mystery of the motive
Lucius – the mystery of the motive
ASON readers will perhaps recognise the name Lucius. It’s an unfinished novel written by Graham Greene in the second half of 1958. Here Mike Hill takes us on a tour of what-might-have-been.
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Greene in the 1930s
Greene in the 1930s
Andrew Purssell, the author of this new book on Greene, has published widely on aspects of twentieth-century Literature and is co-author with Richard J. Hand of Adapting Graham Greene (2015). In his latest book, Purssell seek to present a new reading of Greene’s literary works and critical writings from the 1930s, a period of increasing academic interest and importance in terms of Greene studies. Does he succeed? ASON editor Mike Hill gives his verdict.
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Shades of Greene
Shades of Greene
The 1975 Thames TV series Shades of Greene, in which eighteen of Greene’s short stories were dramatized, was recently given a re-airing not on television but as a one-off at the Electric Palace cinema in Hastings Old Town. As actor and Greene fan Matthew Waterhouse argues, given that Greene is such a major writer and that this series is so loyal to his style and spirit, there must be an enterprising digital/media company out there somewhere willing to give it a remastering and put it out on Blu-Ray?