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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…
Stephanie Norgate shares her notebook practice, and confesses to a deep fascination with the notebooks of others. Stephanie Norgate explores…
I copied any skill I admired, including knitting and skipping, which worried my father for a while. Then I wrote…
Use words like Impressionists use paint; dab at the scene, use the colours and sensations to fill the reader’s head.…
Once I start writing I stay away from anything similar; the temptation to mimic someone else’s perfect prose is too…
