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Interactivity has been a disaster for writers. Famously susceptible to procrastination, writers are avid for distraction. Interactivity, I would argue,…
I think back to a house we were renting twenty-five years ago. I had a very small room with a…
I was a picture editor for ten years. It made me feel busy and confident, which isn’t something that comes…
Neil Rollinson explores the relationship between writing and alcohol, including some famous literary drinkers. Neil Rollinson explores the relationship between…
A machine assessed my three chapters in two and a half hours, and sent best wishes for placing my work…
Lydia Syson speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about childhood in Botswana, the perils of Critical Theory and obsessive accuracy. Lydia Syson…
The city has become a very different place. There’s no hanging about with a coffee and earwigging. Now we are…
Overwhelmed by the pressure to write, I had ceased to do many of the things that I enjoyed. With hindsight,…
Her multitudinousness spawns my passive respect for numbers, speed, spectacle, calculation; all of which barely disguises the non-event. Her multitudinousness…
Writers discuss the book they are currently reading. Penny Black, Jonny Wright, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Sanjida O’Connell, Dipo Agboluaje, Shelley Silas…
Publishers call it editing. Writers call it killing your darlings. As if you’re drowning kittens, or choosing which of your…
Rebecca Mascull on the value of finding the social and human elements in historical research. Rebecca Mascull on the value…
