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Susan Fletcher considers outsiderhood in life and fiction, and Lucy Flannery writes a novel by mistake. Susan Fletcher explores the…
My natural habitat is a book-lined room, so a habit can be something in which we swathe ourselves, symbolic and…
You love Star Trek and Star Wars, because those things are like someone has gone into a laboratory and created…
Brian McCabe on the joys – and terrors – of reading his poetry to an audience. Fifty years after taking…
Selling books is as necessary as writing them but many writers, and I am one of them, have a love-hate…
Claire Harman speaks with Caroline Sanderson about the detective work of literary biography. Claire Harman speaks with Caroline Sanderson about…
My version of Animal Farm would look at how the slave revolt works itself out; it would explore ideas of…
Each time I return to Middlemarch l find it has changed; on first reading it was the story of Dorothea,…
John Harrison on the traces we leave behind. John Harrison describes his investigations into the earliest human societies, and what…
At awards season, scripts of newly-released films find their way online as studios and agents quietly upload PDFs of screenplays…
Mark McCrum speaks with James McConnachie about ghostwriting, TV troubles and Robbie Williams. Mark McCrum speaks with James McConnachie about…
When I’m writing a play I do sometimes imagine the audience reacting to a particular moment but not usually by…
