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One word after another, writing is walking; the journey completes itself. One word after another, writing is walking; the journey…
Anna Woodford on what teaching creative writing has taught her. Running creative writing workshops for a variety of different groups,…
Should I give way to this common feeling that artists should contribute something to society; that is, in addition to…
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…
