# Cyril Connolly
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Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940–49) and wrote Enemies of Promise (1938), which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he had aspired to be in his youth.
== Early life ==
cyril connolly was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, the only child of Major Matthew William Kemble Connolly (1872–1947), an officer in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, by his Anglo-Irish wife, Muriel Maud Vernon, daughter of Colonel Edward Vernon (1838–1913) J.P., D.L., of Clontarf Castle, Co.
EXTRA: Why Suite (212)?
Why make a political arts programme? In this episode of Suite (212) Extra, hosts Juliet Jacques and Tom Overton discuss today's arts broadcasting and left-wing podcast scenes, and the place of Suite (212) and Resonance 104.4fm within it; how British modernist writers worked with TV and radio; how m…
Martin Stannard: Evelyn Waugh, Catholicism and America
--About the Lecture
By 1947, the year of his first visit to America, Evelyn Waugh had wounded most of his friends. He had tried to bully John Betjeman and Lady Diana Cooper into Catholicism; he had condemned Olivia Plunket-Greene, the woman who had brought him to the Church, as a traitor to the fa…
Michael Winkler
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Grim Short Story Competition;
Entries are open from 24th of September and close on 22nd of October. To submit go to www.danmurphys.com.au and submit your story as a review of a product. Be creative ! Screenshot or send us a link once your entry is live and send to beyondthezeropod@gma…
Best Ideas of: Michael Longley — The Vitality of Ordinary Things | On Being with Krista Tippett | 26 Mar 2021
For other podcast summaries, search 'podcast summaries' in any podcast apps.Or if you're on Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/5-min-summariesOriginal episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/michael-longley-the-vitality-of-ordinary-things/id150892556?i=10005144018071 quote:"If you don’t have anyt…
English poet and Writer Rosemary Tonks
English poet Rosemary Tonks was born in Gillingham, Kent. Her father, an engineer, died in Africa before Tonks’s birth and she was sent to boarding school as a young girl. In the late 1940s, Tonks married Michael Lightband, also an engineer. The couple lived in Calcutta, where Tonks had a paratypho…
Who is Khonshu?
Cyril Connolly once said, “Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.” On today’s episode of Night Knight Spector, we take a look at Khonshu, Mark’s savior, guiding light, and source of pain and turmoil as we attempt to shed some light on their complex relationship and Khonshu’s view…
Moser the Moserian
Reading list:
* A personal and stirring guide to the great Dutch painters, by Sebastian Smee
* Benjamin Moser on What We Can Learn from Failed Dutch Painters, by Benjamin Moser
* How Gayness Changed During My Lifetime, by Benjamin Moser
* Enemies of Promise, by Cyril Connolly
My guest on the podcas…
Norman Parkinson
Roy Plomley's castaway is photographer Norman Parkinson.
Favourite track: La Vie En Rose by Grace Jones
Book: The Unquiet Grave by Cyril Connolly
Luxury: Life-size bronze statue of an Ama-Indian woman
112 | Choosing to have children as a creative with Dinuka McKenzie and Lee Kofman
What considerations come into choosing to have a baby for creatives? And once baby enters the picture, how do you balance parenting with your creative practice?
We ask Dinuka McKenzie and Lee Kofman, two beloved past guests who happen to be both authors and parents, about their decision to have c…
Think Like A Kid Again, with Austin Kleon
For a hundred years, parents attempting to undertake creative endeavours have had a ready-made excuse, courtesy of Cyril Connolly: “The enemy of art is the pram in the hall.”
Kids, the thinking goes, are where creativity goes to die. But Austin Kleon thinks Connolly got it exactly backwards.
This m…
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