C.J Schuler is a freelance writer and journalist specialising in literature, travel and the arts. He has written regularly for The Independent, and has contributed to numerous other publications including the Financial Times, The Tablet and the New Statesman. He is currently Chairman of the Authors' Club.
Anyone who has been within cab-hailing distance of a newsroom in recent years will vouch for the cringe-making accuracy of Alistair Beaton’s brilliant new comedy Electric Ink, broadcast on Radio 4 on Friday mornings. Starring the superb Robert Lindsay as the grizzled hack Maddox Bradley and Alex Jennings as his suave editor Oliver, it satirises [...]
By C J Schuler | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Friday, 3 July 2009 at 2:55 pm
The sad death of Michael Jackson puts me in mind of his surprising cameo appearance in Saul Bellow’s last novel, Ravelstein.
The narrator, Chick, is staying on the sixth floor of the Hotel Crillon in Paris, and finds the whole of the floor beneath is occupied by Jackson and his entourage.
“The waiter tells me that [...]
By C J Schuler | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Saturday, 27 June 2009 at 1:28 pm
1How the Mail Online turned us into misogyny addicts
2It was Bayern who denied the Germans victory in the Champions League final, not Chelsea
3Charitable rape: Peacekeepers’ dirty little secrets
4Islam is not “the enemy” – irrational hatred is
5The next couple of months could shape the future of Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal
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