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Shades of meaning crowd round every piece of advice I ever received. I never took anything as truth, only as…
Fraser Grace unexpectedly finds he may have a future in writing about his own past. The writer gradually learns to…
I find a photo of a green pick-up truck and remember open roads, low slung hills, ghost towns, dust balls,…
Steven Pinker speaks with Marcy Kahan about their shared childhood, good writing and democratic dictionaries. Steven Pinker speaks with his…
To have a black academic defending hip-hop artists meant so much; it helped give our work currency. To have a…
I loved the sense of living in Woolf’s novels, their heady, fluttering, thoughtful sensuality; the significance of each detail. I…
Strategies to break the curse of writer’s block, when creative invention fades. Writer’s block can be a dark tunnel where…
Funny isn’t it how you don’t consider for a second that you can be a writer even though it’s what…
Nigel Cliff speaks with James McConnachie about the Shakespeare Riots and UK vs US publishing. Nigel Cliff speaks with James…
I used to read haphazardly and uncritically, from French translations to war memoirs to fiction; now inevitably I read a…
Writing, as Hemingway reminds us, is a craft in which we are all apprentices and no one becomes a master.…
Duncan Forbes describes the challenges and insights of translating poetry Duncan Forbes describes the challenges and consolations of translating poetry…
