Clive James has said that when Rupert Murdoch arrives at the pearly gates he will come brandishing a copy of the Australian Literary Review.

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There would appear to be little common ground between Vice, a bawdy catalog of the dangerously exotic fringes of global youth culture, and the Paris Review, and esteemed literary journal, but Rocco Castoro, the editor of Vice, said "the staffs of our publications run in the same circles" and called himself an avid reader of the Paris Review.

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The essay on Beckett reads more like the book review it started out as, and the final piece on Baldwin only just about succeeds in comparing his literary style with the recent autobiographies by President Barack Obama.

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