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Naked In The Spotlight
Brian McCabe on the joys – and terrors – of reading his poetry to an audience. Fifty years after taking…
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Check out the latest news from the RLF, WritersMosaic highlights, and Collected – our collection of interviews, reflections and articles exploring the literary life and world of writers today.
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Nicholas Murray – Marketing And Me
Selling books is as necessary as writing them but many writers, and I am one of them, have a love-hate…
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Claire Harman
Claire Harman speaks with Caroline Sanderson about the detective work of literary biography. Claire Harman speaks with Caroline Sanderson about…
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Jonny Wright – The Classic Book I’d Like To Re-write
My version of Animal Farm would look at how the slave revolt works itself out; it would explore ideas of…
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Maria McCann – Life-changing Literature
Each time I return to Middlemarch l find it has changed; on first reading it was the story of Dorothea,…
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Visiting Things No Longer There
John Harrison on the traces we leave behind. John Harrison describes his investigations into the earliest human societies, and what…
Nicola Baldwin – My Reading Habits
At awards season, scripts of newly-released films find their way online as studios and agents quietly upload PDFs of screenplays…
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Mark McCrum, part 2
Mark McCrum speaks with James McConnachie about ghostwriting, TV troubles and Robbie Williams. Mark McCrum speaks with James McConnachie about…
Anna Reynolds – Letter To My Audience
When I’m writing a play I do sometimes imagine the audience reacting to a particular moment but not usually by…
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Jane Shilling – Why I Write
I was reading Chekhov short stories soon after the birth and the thought came to me that if I tried…
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The Path Not Taken
The questionable joys of running a bookshop. As the child of bookshop owners, Simon Rae grew up knowing that running…
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The Warrior
Gabriel Gbadamosi’s talisman is a cultural counterpart.