Revealed: Germaine Greer's 30,000-word love letter to Martin Amis, a lover...
In 2013 the feminist author sold her lifetime archive to the University of Melbourne. This September, after the cache was opened up to scholars for the first time, journalist and academic Margaret...
View Article'Death Ship,' A Conversation with Joseph Badal
Photo: Joseph Badal Joseph Badal served for six years in the U.S. Army as a highly decorated commissioned officer in sensitive, classified positions, including tours of duty in Greece and Vietnam. He...
View ArticleNick Rennison: 'Platoons of the undead lurked in obscure books'
The anthologist talks us through some of the ghoulish discoveries he dug up from the archive for his collection of Victorian horror fiction...
View ArticlePatrick deWitt interview: ‘Certain writers look down their noses at plot. I...
The author and screenwriter talks about his lucky break in a bar, making readers laugh and kicking genres in the teeth...
View ArticleUCD academic Áine Mahon on Eggshells by Caitriona Lally: ‘a delightful debut’
In Caitriona Lally’s Eggshells we meet Vivian – nine tenths fictional creation and one tenth our own personality. Vivian is independent, creative, brave. She lives alone in Dublin in what was once her...
View ArticleNarrative of closure
For Sophia Khan, a sentence that popped into her head at random on a leisurely walk became the starting point of her very first novel — about obsessive love, family ties and a desperate search for...
View ArticleLouise Beech: I always write physically at my desk; in my head I write...
Louise Beech has always been haunted by the sea, and regularly writes travel pieces for the Hull Daily Mail, where she was a columnist for10 years. Her short fiction has won the Glass Woman Prize, the...
View ArticleCaitriona Lally on Madame Bovary, Beryl the Peril and other heroines
What was the first book to make an impression on you? Alice in Wonderland – pure magic. I loved the rhythm of it, the nonsense that somehow made sense, the madness of it all. This year’s 150th...
View Article'Out 100' Responses Are Telling and Useful
Back in 2008, just as I was finishing an arduous three-and-a-half-year MFA in creative writing program, I was overjoyed to have had the opportunity to publish a story on Advocate.com, the website of...
View ArticleNo Bieber? No problem! How Oneohtrix Point Never made a pop album without the...
The avant garde electronic artist wanted to create a work using snippets of pop’s biggest hits. But when songwriters didn’t play ball he simply pretended to be them...
View ArticleEn route to Majestic
As a backpacker, when Zac O’ Yeah stepped on to the bustling streets of Bengaluru, he was greeted by what he calls an “easy-going” area. Today, 25 years later, the heart of the city, Majestic, still...
View ArticleSkyler: Are those who wander eventually lost?
Whenever the holiday season begins, I start to rethink my entire life. Why did I decide it was a good idea to move all over the country so that now I am at the opposite end of the United States from my...
View ArticleThe seeds of change
Ravi Nawal’s first book has already earned him high praise from names like Nandan Nilekani and Deepak Parekh. In “India Can” (Bloomsbury), Nawal, a managing consultant, puts together ideas within...
View ArticleRising Literary Stars Dress Up As Their Favorite Book Characters
Every writer began as a reader, a brilliant new photo feature from New York Magazine's The Cut reminds us. The Cut photographed and interviewed five acclaimed women authors, each embodying a favorite...
View ArticleSwansea University creative writing graduate launches and signs award winning...
(Source: Swansea University) Do you want to hear about the Devil's visit to the glove maker, the woman betting on underdogs at the dog track, a desperate mother performing a nightly striptease, and the...
View ArticleKate Holden: 'There are drugs out there now I don’t even know the names of'
Her drugs and prostitution memoir, In My Skin, has sold 80,000 copies in a decade, but Kate Holden insists it was her ordinariness that gave it power...
View ArticleRichard Mabey: ‘I always argued against the idea that foraging was new’
It is more than 40 years now since Richard Mabey published his first and still bestselling book Food for Free, the original British forager’s bible. That book set in motion a trend for the fossicking...
View ArticleSturgeon reveals what makes her tick on Desert Island Discs
If you come across Nicola Sturgeon on a desert island, expect to find a "hot-headed, impulsive" character, blasting out a Cilla Black record and reading a biography of Lady Thatcher. Don't take my word...
View ArticlePrimo Levi Event at the Burchfield Penney, Friday, 7pm (PPG - Partnership for...
(Source: PPG - Partnership for the Public Good Buffalo) Events, News • on November 17th, 2015 • Talking Leaves will host publisher Robert Weil and editor/translator Ann Goldstein in a conversation...
View ArticleInterview with children's book author Deborah Underwood
Deborah Underwood is the author of numerous children’s books, including INTERSTELLAR CINDERELLA, HERE COMES THE TOOTH FAIRY CAT, and the New York Times bestsellers HERE COMES THE EASTER CAT, THE QUIET...
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