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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…
The clear and often poignant honesty that travellers will share with total strangers whom they know they will never see…
In Location And The Writer, we visit a struggling seaside town, a childhood corner of Ireland, and London’s winding Thames.…
I didn’t know exactly what it meant in the sense of its paraphrasable content, but its potency was unignorable. Imagine…
You’ve said exactly what you wanted to say, and said it well, and the reader or viewer will be moved,…
Unused research: a concatenation of vice, gambling, Mormonism, hideous landscapes, a dead sea, padlocked beer — and the atomic bomb.…
Even trailblazing Simone de Beauvoir, who scorned conventional marriage, was not immune from jealousy, nor from retaliation in print. Even…
