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A sentence that seems perfect when scribbled down in the middle of the night, can often appear, in the bracing…
The next best thing to stopping time is to chronicle it, and then forge its intangibility into a physical object.…
Leigh Russell on how she researches the social issues underlying her crime novels. Leigh Russell describes the exhaustive research that…
I’m proud of you. It takes guts to be a classical music-loving, poetry-writing, six-foot, teenage lesbian from Burnley. And while…
Writers discuss their favourite book in translation. Nicola Baldwin, Marina Benjamin, Mario Petrucci, Courttia Newland, Esther Selsdon and Hugh Stoddart…
Stephen Romer speaks with John Greening about poetry, life in France and working with deeply personal source material. Stephen Romer…
You begin to not see the page, but to see yourself from across the room, looking blankly at a blank…
Richard Brautigan has a unique way of combining broad comedy with a truly desperate view of the human condition. Richard…
The sweaters with worn-out elbows were on their way out; writers were starting to look fashionable, even sexy. The sweaters…
Thinking, telling, writing began with the ocean of story, between the dusty Northern plains of Delhi and the southern, sultry…
Tobias Jones on how he built his own desk. After years of making-do with desks he disliked – or which…
My agent thought the first hundred pages were the best thing I’d ever written, and wanted the rest as soon…
