‘Tragic’ was always one of those easy-to-reach for words used to describe Northern Ireland’s ‘troubles’. It managed to avoid picking sides, and recognised that things were more complicated on the ground than the simple catholic vs protestant / irish vs british equations. Not such a bad thing, but more often than not it was also [...]
“I mean it really should be as close to idling as possible.” Joseph O’Neill on writing
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We like the sound of Bolano’s By Night in Chile
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Which UK politician is the obvious choice for novelisation? http://bit.ly/M0XXP #
More comments on the ‘Towards a Poetics of Anger’ essay
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Unfinished Graham Greene Mystery found
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Whatever the world expected [...]
writing has become a weapon
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10 guidelines for structuring a short story
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Reviewing the reviewers - the debate continues
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Off now to finish ‘Last train to liguria’ by Christine Dwyer Hickey #
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Extract from Leviathan, winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson prize: http://bit.ly/zpFGZ #
Bezalel Stern goes [...]
It’s refreshing to hear an author declare in no uncertain terms that they don’t like the cover of their novel. M.J. Hyland did exactly that on a recent radio interview when asked about her latest novel This is How. Not, presumably because there’s anything wrong with the cover per se - it’s an elegant and [...]
Amazon now in tax dispute with Japan. http://bit.ly/vwb08 RT @roncharles #
extract from Mausolée
Rouja Lazarova looks back at three generations of women under communism
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July issue of Words Without Borders is on Memory and Lies
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Humble yourself and take the GCSE literature quiz at the BBC
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Google.it celebrate the 128th anniversary of the publication of Carlo [...]
Hemingway’s “Feast” more moveable than first realized
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Faulkner trivia - he wanted to use coloured inks in ‘The Sound and the Fury’ to delineate multiple time periods
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William Burroughs and Susan Sontag on meeting Beckett
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Irish novelist Sean O’Reilly interviewed in TMO
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On MATG, Niven Govinden wants more disco in fiction: http://bit.ly/iiYxg RT @canongatebooks [...]
There was virtually nothing I liked about Jim Dodge’s Fup when it arrived at my door. A blurb from the Independent on Sunday telling me ‘You’ll love it’, coupled with the sub-title ‘A modern fable’, had me close to shredding it with extreme prejudice.
Three things stopped me, though - the peculiarly grumpy looking duck on [...]
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