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Catherine O’Flynn explores failed utopias, and Siân Rees takes us to Asunción in Paraguay. Catherine O’Flynn dissects her enthusiasm for…
Part-philosophy, part-erotica, part-poetic stream of consciousness, The Lover translates the strangeness of Duras’ world, of being in it, onto the…
Ruth Thomas describes how living with builders helped her refocus her novel in progress. Living in the chaos of building…
Maybe you’re just lost in confusion like when you got that first ever commission to write a book review for…
Donny O’Rourke speaks with Geoff Hattersley about America, anthologies, travel and music. Donny O’Rourke speaks with Geoff Hattersley about American…
This is reading as a meander and a different kind of immersion in a subject than the reading I do…
Jonathan Tulloch on whether poetic license should be allowed in nature writing. As a novelist who has also written non-fiction…
I identified with these hobos. I lived in digs with my parents in one room. They were in a small…
John O’Donoghue on mental illness, and revisiting Victorian asylums in fiction. John O’Donoghue explains the origins of his memoir ‘Sectioned’,…
In the first of our new series ‘Poetry Break’, Julia Copus and Martina Evans explore two favourite classic poems. Martina…
That first phrase or line is like a magnet drawing other words to it and they begin to gather, sometimes…
Charles Jennings describes how he gets down to writing. Every writer has experienced the horror of the blank page. But…
