Cultural Amnesia (135 page)

CLIVE JAMES
is the author of more than thirty books. As well
as essays and novels, he has published collections of literary and television criticism, travel writing and verse, plus four volumes of autobiography,
Unreliable
Memoirs
,
Falling Towards England
,
May Week Was in June
and
North Face of
Soho
. As a television performer he has appeared regularly for both the BBC and ITV, most notably as writer and presenter of the ‘Postcard’ series of travel documentaries. He
helped to found the independent television company Watchmaker, and the Internet enterprise Welcome Stranger, one of whose offshoots is a multimedia personal website, www.clivejames.com. In 1992
he was made a Member of the Order of Australia, and in 2003 he was awarded the Philip Hodgins memorial medal for literature.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

A U T O B I O G R A P H Y

Unreliable Memoirs

Falling Towards England

May Week Was in June

Always Unreliable

North Face of Soho

F I C T I O N

Brilliant Creatures

The Remake

Brrm! Brrm!

The Silver Castle

V E R S E

Peregrine Prykke’s Pilgrimage through the
London Literary World

Other Passports: Poems
1958–1985

The Book of My Enemy: Collected Verse
1958–2003

C R I T I C I S M

The Metropolitan Critic
(new edition, 1994)

Visions Before Midnight

The Crystal Bucket

First Reactions
(US)

From the Land of Shadows

Glued to the Box

Snakecharmers in Texas

The Dreaming Swimmer

Fame in the Twentieth Century

On Television

Even as We Speak

Reliable Essays

As of This Writing
(US)

The Meaning of Recognition

T R A V E L

Flying Visits

First published 2007 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, and in Great Britain by Picador

This electronic edition published 2013 by Picador
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