Tony Klinger

I wasn’t going to write today, because I am busy writing my new book, and it’s Jewish New Year tomorrow, (Happy New Year to everyone by the way!) and I have to get two days work done today so I don’t fall too far behind my self imposed schedule.
But some things transcend your plans, and [...]

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For those of you who don’t understand Yiddish, a schlep is defined as to pull along heavily, like this, the one legged man schlepped the huge case up and down three sets of stairs. You get the picture?
Yesterday I schlepped myself, a heavy enough weight you might say, for a 6 miles hike across country [...]

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I’m an unusual reviewer. You might already have guessed this from my writing style or the fact that commenting on the creative work of others, when you work creatively yourself is a fairly strange way to spend your time.
But the reason I consider myself strange is that I hardly ever accept a “freebie”, which is [...]

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a truly fascinating film with a German central character, an eight-year-old boy, set in the Second World War. Ironically I happen to be writing a book about a German hero in the Second World War and am therefore dealing with the moral anomalies of such a scenario.
In this [...]

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This week the European Champion’s League football season kicked off. There are the rich and the poor in every sport, but rarely, if ever, is the discrepancy so large as it is here. It won’t be a surprise if a poor team wins the European Champions League, it will be a genuine miracle.
Two nights ago [...]

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