Better Known

Katherine Bucknell

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Katherine Bucknell discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Katherine Bucknell edited all four volumes of Christopher Isherwood's Diaries , a volume of letters between Christopher Isherwood and his partner Don Bachardy (The Animals), and W.H. Auden's Juvenilia: Poems 1922-1928. Co-editor of Auden Studies, a founder of The W. H. Auden Society, and director of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, she is widely recognised as a leading authority on Isherwood, and her new biography Christopher Isherwood Inside Out is now available. She is also the author of five novels. She was born in Vietnam, raised in America, and lives in London.

Christopher Isherwood's novel Prater Violet https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2024/1/30/prater-violet-by-christopher-isherwood
DH Lawrence's novel The Lost Girl https://journals.openedition.org/lawrence/2328
The Nucleo Project https://www.thenucleoproject.org/
Marfa Stance https://www.marfastance.com/
How scallops move https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGdXxoHJaBA
The value of memorising poetry https://theconversation.com/ode-to-the-poem-why-memorising-poetry-still-matters-for-human-connection-121622