It turns out that the Blake’s 7 revival, which had promised Paul Darrow’s return to the role of Avon (before Darrow dropped out and the television project was aborted), is taking the audio route: perhaps taking a cue from Big Finish’s work with Doctor Who. Alas, there will be new actors playing Blake and Avon (played respectively by Colin Salmon and Derek Riddell). But several writers involved with Doctor Who (including Marc Platt and Ben Aaronovitch) have penned scripts.

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Daily Times: “Winning one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards put her in a pantheon of celebrated novelists, but Indian Booker prize-winner Kiran Desai worries she may not have another book in her….And for now, as she travels between literary festivals, she says has nothing left to tell.”

Adam Kirsch: “In the last decade, however, Los Angeles has fortified this reservoir of talent with a new sense of literary community, and a growing literary infrastructure. The two go hand in hand. If New York remains the literary capital of America, it is because writers here feel that they are a central part of what the city means and does. And they can feel that way because of the publishing houses and magazines and readings and parties that make literary life visible and even, at moments, glamorous.”

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