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Transcription by Ben Lerner review – a stunning exploration of technology and storytelling
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (1225+ words) theguardian.com Transcription by Ben Lerner review – a stunning exploration of technology and storytelling Ranging from quantum mechanics to eating disorders to the nature of fiction, this is a breathtaking interrogation of family, connection and memory Transcription ends with an…...
Slow Horses author Mick Herron says he knows how Jackson Lamb dies
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (579+ words) The writer knows ‘how, why, when and where’ Gary Oldman’s cantankerous intelligence officer meets his end – a fate he figured out ‘relatively recently’ Slow Horses author Mick Herron has revealed that he knows how Jackson Lamb dies. The irascible, unkempt…...
The fanfiction written on a notes app that’s become a bestseller – with a seven-figure film deal
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (247+ words) SenLinYu’s debut started life as Harry Potter fanfiction. The Alchemised author shares why they were drawn to a war-torn love story, how a conservative upbringing shaped their writing, and the snobbery around fanfiction In recent days, bookish pockets of TikTok…...
Build Your Dream Café And We'll Decide What Your Role In A Novel Would Be!
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (21+ words) Antagonist or Heroine?View Entire Post › Build Your Dream Café And We'll Decide What Your Role In A Novel Would Be!...
Dreaming of writing your novel this year? Rip up all the rules!
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (869+ words) After 35 years of teaching fiction writing, the prize-winning author shares her wisdom. First tip? Don’t write what you know… No, I insist. A generic first line is a failure of nerve. I have never encountered a rule for fiction I…...
Myth, monsters and making sense of a disenchanted world: why everyone is reading fantasy
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (998+ words) I have made the leap from literary fiction to fantasy – for those who think it’s mere wish-fulfilment, here’s why we need that thing with the dragonsFantasy doesn’t need defending. It is one of the great cultural forms at the moment,…...
Debut author Colwill Brown wins BBC short story award for ‘heartbreaking’ tale – read an extract here
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (561+ words) Brown’s story of a teenage life ‘critically damaged in a moment’ was the ‘unanimous’ pick for the £15,000 prize Read an extract from the story below Doncaster-born writer Colwill Brown has won this year’s BBC national short story award for a…...
Colm Tóibín: Why I set up a press to publish Nobel winner László Krasznahorkai
11+ mon, 2+ day ago (353+ words) The Irish novelist discovered the Hungarian writer two decades ago, and was excited by the verbal pyrotechnics of a rule-breaking storyteller Once we acquired the rights to Krasznahorkai’s books, the task was to make them better known. At the Edinburgh…...
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows by Steven Pinker review – communication breakdown
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (1206+ words) Unwritten rules, social contracts, shared logic – and what happens when they fall apartKnots, RD Laing’s 1970 book, was a collection of short dialogues illustrating the tangle of projection and misreading that characterises human encounters. The radical psychiatrist made clear the influence…...
‘It’s no romcom’: why the real Wuthering Heights is too extreme for the screen
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (1440+ words) The new film adaptation by Saltburn director Emerald Fennell looks set to be provocative – but nowhere near as shocking as Emily Brontë’s originalThe most astonishing thing about the first trailer for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is not the extreme closeup…...