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Landscapes of love: How Patrick Gale's insight into women and men bore rich fruit
Friday, 12 June 2009
Prolific professional novelist – and amateur farm labourer – Patrick Gale jumped from being cult favourite to chart-storming bestseller.
Zoë Heller : 'I loathe myself by the end of each week'
Friday, 12 June 2009
Despite a tan from the Bahamas, movie success and recent critical acclaim, Zoë Heller admits that her transition from columnist to novelist has left scars
The Word On: Marilynne Robinson
Friday, 12 June 2009
"Some bloggers have had mixed feelings about the novel, Home. Robinson's prose is beautifully crafted. There is a depth of thought to this writing which demands a slower pace from the reader. I felt as though she were inviting me to enter a quieter world, with a slower pace of life, and to allow my thoughts to drift unhurriedly through the careful, considered prose."
The future of the media
Thursday, 11 June 2009
As Malcolm Gladwell embarks on a British tour, the author talks about plane crashes, Gordon Brown – and the tipping point of Obama's election.
How to get a book deal
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Tim Clare spent years trying to be published. Now he's written about the secret of his success
Arrogance of Socrates made a compelling case for his death
Monday, 8 June 2009
New book questions philosopher's reputation as an innocent martyr to his beliefs
David Nicholls: On not reading reviews
Monday, 8 June 2009
Three days to publication, and the reviews are starting to appear.
Class struggle: Jake Arnott analyses the class repression of one of the heroes of Empire
Sunday, 7 June 2009
At a recent party, Jake Arnott noticed a group of Old Etonians. They exuded a sense of entitlement only an elite education can provide. A short time later, he observed another group, dressed to impress. Their eagerness betrayed them. "I looked at them and thought: grammar school boys, made for middle management," the author of The Long Firm says. He adds, with the hint of a sneer, "That's why I dropped out of grammar school. It just seemed geared to creating middle managers."
Forgotten authors No.36: Michael McDowell
Sunday, 7 June 2009
"I am a commercial writer and I'm proud of that," said Alabama-born Michael McDowell, "I think it is a mistake to try to write for the ages." His gothic deep-South novels appeared mainly as paperbacks in the golden age of the throwaway read, the early 1980s, but there's something about them that remains to haunt the reader.
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