'I'm resistant to fiction that thinks itself extravagantly imaginative; magic realism, say. Because there's usually no narrative tension, no humour, and the dialogue is unbelievable. '
'Izzo's special contribution to literature is known as 'Mediterranean noir'; crime fiction which depicts a natural paradise poisoned by corruption, drugs, organised crime, money-laundering and political failure.'
'Scott Fitzgerald... was frequently blocked. He patched several gaps in his novels by appropriating parts of his wife Zelda's letters, articles, diary, and Save Me the Waltz, her first novel, without her permission.'
For many years, Sally Cline has lived a ‘secret life’, spending summers away from her Cambridge home in Austin, Texas. But are her two lives so very different after all?
19-10-2017
Charles Boyle considers the range of circumstances that make writers stop writing, sometimes forever, and why this can be an amicable separation.
Kevin Clarke shares a cautionary tale about deliberate plagiarism in the screen-writing industries - an issue he has had to contend with not once, but at least five times.