Bellow is a very important writer for me, and the summer I spent reading him in Germany sparked my desire to dabble in fiction myself. So I'm especially excited to be recognized for my tribute to the late, great Mr. B.

We're very confident ahead of Germany, I wouldn't swap our squad for anyone else's,

That's the way football is. There's no point getting too low. If we don't qualify for Germany then OK, but we're still in a good position. We've got two games to send us through, so let's see where we are after these two games before we get too high or too low.

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

North Dakota's is sort of a different pace.