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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…
Funny isn’t it how you don’t consider for a second that you can be a writer even though it’s what…
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.…
The clear and often poignant honesty that travellers will share with total strangers whom they know they will never see…
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,…
Even trailblazing Simone de Beauvoir, who scorned conventional marriage, was not immune from jealousy, nor from retaliation in print. Even…
I came to understand that bad words were only the beginning of the writing process. Brilliance lay not in writing…
I was in the middle of a fruitless search for a black northern monologue to take back to drama school,…
The inspiration here has involved a movement from poetry to prose. This is something that pleases me immensely; one genre…
