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Elanor Dymott – Why I Write
I find a photo of a green pick-up truck and remember open roads, low slung hills, ghost towns, dust balls,…
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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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Steven Pinker, part 1
Steven Pinker speaks with Marcy Kahan about their shared childhood, good writing and democratic dictionaries. Steven Pinker speaks with his…
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Jonny Wright – Writers Who Inspire Me
To have a black academic defending hip-hop artists meant so much; it helped give our work currency. To have a…
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Lydia Syson – Life-changing Literature
I loved the sense of living in Woolf’s novels, their heady, fluttering, thoughtful sensuality; the significance of each detail. I…
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When The Words Won’t Come
Strategies to break the curse of writer’s block, when creative invention fades. Writer’s block can be a dark tunnel where…
Lucy Jago – Letter To My Younger Self
Funny isn’t it how you don’t consider for a second that you can be a writer even though it’s what…
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Nigel Cliff, part 2
Nigel Cliff speaks with James McConnachie about the Shakespeare Riots and UK vs US publishing. Nigel Cliff speaks with James…
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Ali Knight – My Reading Habits
I used to read haphazardly and uncritically, from French translations to war memoirs to fiction; now inevitably I read a…
Julian Evans – How Writing Changes The Writer
Writing, as Hemingway reminds us, is a craft in which we are all apprentices and no one becomes a master.…
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Translating Poetry From Antique Lands
Duncan Forbes describes the challenges and insights of translating poetry Duncan Forbes describes the challenges and consolations of translating poetry…
Lucinda Hawksley – The Best Advice I Ever Received
The clear and often poignant honesty that travellers will share with total strangers whom they know they will never see…
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Location And The Writer, part 5
In Location And The Writer, we visit a struggling seaside town, a childhood corner of Ireland, and London’s winding Thames.…