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Your newly chosen philosophy degree gradually morphs into a literature one, with a dose of Sartrean self-creativity. Your newly chosen…
He slapped a silver-cover version of JD Salinger’s novel down in front of each one of us. ‘Read it,’ he…
At some point, the Doom would fade enough for me to jump back into whatever I’d been trying to write…
She made us choose a poem and learn it off by heart. It would be useful, she said, if we…
You don’t need to be gregarious, but you do need to be curious. As Seamus Heaney suggested, we should be…
Summer sprinted on with face masks and hand washes, and centuries-old talk about the weather had shifted to Covid. As…
I have written at least four full-length novels that will never see the light of day. A couple have been…
Having acquired an agent, you haven’t got it made: that even a top agent can send your book round and…
People in books — they’re important. So, when I found a girl in a book who was like me, that…
I could picture the scene clearly. Suddenly what I believed to be an exotic story contained a personal element. I…
Women are often expected to stick to one area of interest – often a ‘female-centric’ one – possibly because we’re…
Muriel Spark had it right, spending most of the year in a whirl of social engagements, and retreating to a…
