Dickensblog

The Inimitable is inexhaustible

So says biographer Robert Douglas-Fairhurst in this interview about the upcoming adaptations.

Recreating Dickens's London

The Uncommercial Traveler has been turned into "an immersive theatre experience" in East London. Click here and here for details.

But why is the rum gone?

The Crispin and Crispianus pub, which Mr. Dickens used to visit and which he wrote about in The Uncommercial Traveller, has been damaged by a "massive fire." Details are here and here.