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If you could be a writer in any time and place, when and where would it be? Philippe Sands (@philippesands): "1919, on a train between Vienna and Paris." the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be? Ottessa Moshfegh: "I might have used a pen name, something to obscure my heritage and protect myself from being pigeon-holed as an “ethnic female writer”. Gross." the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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Hamlet or A Midsummer Night’s Dream? M. John Harrison: "A Midsummer Night’s Dream, or at least the idea of it. It irritates me when I see it, but later I start thinking about it again. I suspect what I actually want to do is revise it in some way" the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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How, in your opinion, should we measure a book’s success? Kit de Waal (@KitdeWaal): "If someone writes their grandmother’s memoir, self-publishes fifteen copies and sends them to the various members of their family, that book is a success." the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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5 ชม. |
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What is the first thing you wrote? Kate Mosse (@katemosse): "My first “novella” was the story of an Eskimo, Nanouk, and her travails at the South Pole. A kind of awful 1960s Little House on the Prairie meets Pingu (and fortunately long lost . . .)." the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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6 ชม. |
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What author or book do you think is most overrated? And why? Ian McEwan: "The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene. Terrible idea to allow God to take over your plot." the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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6 ชม. |
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#OTD in 1740, Colley Cibber was summoned to court by Henry Fielding (under the name 'Captain Hercules Vinegar') for 'murder of the English language'. But was Cibber really so bad? the-tls.co.uk/articles/priva…
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I have a little prod here at uni admissions scandals bit.ly/2FhU0OV .. at personal statements, plagiarism, and the problems of embedded privilege
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7 ชม. |
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Jack Kerouac or James Baldwin? Chris Kraus: "Jack Kerouac because he’s so crazy and indefensible, but I love them both." the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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8 ชม. |
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If you could be a writer in any time and place, when and where would it be? Roddy Doyle: "I’d like to be Dickens’s exact contemporary, but in Dublin." the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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9 ชม. |
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If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be? Jessie Burton: "I am sorry I killed Peebo the parakeet in The Miniaturist. I was young and foolish." the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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22 ชม. |
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What will your field look like twenty-five years from now? Max Porter (@maxjohnporter): 'Embattled, stubborn, persistent, threatened, relevant, diverse, flexible, free, and at least in part physically printed on paper' the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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22 ชม. |
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Henry Hardy considers the hostility to oversimplification that motivated Isaiah Berlin’s work the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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23 ชม. |
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To what extent, in your view, is writing a political act? Olivia Laing: 'Entirely' the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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23 ชม. |
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'If [Derrida's] writing stretches the mind beyond what is comfortable, it is only doing what philosophy at its best has always done' the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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Which is your least favourite fictional character? David Lodge: 'A more interesting question would be: "Which is your favourite loathsome character?” My choice would be Mr Thwaites, the bully of the genteel boarding house in Slaves of Solitude' the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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Examining Bernard Williams’s attempt to make sense of ethics, without a moral system the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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Is there any book, written by someone else, that you wish you’d written? Hilary Mantel: 'There are books that I hugely admire and know I could never write, but to write someone else’s story means being them – heart as well as head, life history too' the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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Thomas Hobbes: A grim portrait of human nature the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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Do you have any writing tics? Chuck Palahniuk (@chuckpalahniuk): 'I burn every note, draft and bit of research once the book is published' the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi…
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