The Paris Review

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From the cover of issue no. 136 (Fall 1995) of The Paris Review. It has been said, erroneously, that poets are cat people, novelists dog people. In fact, lots of novelists are into cats. Hilary Mantel included a photo of her cat in her Art of Fiction

Artists Magazine

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If your interest runs toward illustration, then check out Thames & Hudson’s The Illustrators series. Each of these 112-page books focuses on one illustrator’s life and work, with engaging, insightful text interspersed with 80 or more historic photos

Literary Hub

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On June 14th, 1929, the Dorothy Warren Gallery in London opened an exhibition of paintings by a new artist, one not known to the public—except, of course, as the author of the recently published (and recently banned) Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and othe

Woman

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by Polly Crosby (£12.99, HarperCollins, HB) Romilly’s eccentric father is struggling with early-onset dementia. On finding fame with a series of children’s books starring his daughter, readers become convinced that his beautiful illustrations contain

The Threepenny Review

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I CAN REMEMBER quite clearly how I first encountered D. H. Lawrence as a writer of something other than fiction. We were studying Hamlet at school, reading the expected lit crit by A.C. Bradley, G. Wilson Knight and, more fashionably, Jan Kott (Shake

Writing Magazine

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The Hysteria Writing Competition 2020 is inviting entries. The competition, which is run by Linda Parkinson Hardman, supported the work of her social enterprise The Hysterectomy Association until that closed in 2019. It’s now run from Linda’s blog. T

The Millions

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The 2019 Man Booker Prize shortlist is here! The post Man Booker Prize Names 2019 Shortlist appeared first on The Millions.

Writing Magazine

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She’s written ten novels and four works of non-fiction. Initially seen as a feminist novelist, she caused a furore with autobiographical accounts of motherhood and divorce. Her most recent novels have been categorised as autofiction (fictionalised au

The Christian Science Monitor

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Shared reading memories I was enchanted by Robert Klose’s Sept. 4 Home Forum essay, “How I became a reader of books.” It brought back memories of my more than threescore years of reading, even as a small child. Having experienced the pleasure of boo

Writing Magazine

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The Wigtown Poetry Prize is open for entries The international Scottish poetry competition, which was refreshed and rebranded in 2019, welcomes entries from poets from anywhere in the world. There are prizes in various categories: • The Wigtown Prize

The Millions

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And then every so often you just stop yourself in awe and realize, these are Virginia Woolf’s letters! This is her paper, her ink, she wrote this — it’s not a facsimile. The post Great Art Doesn’t Just Happen: The Millions Interviews Bill Golds

Writing Magazine

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First prize is £1,000 in the New Welsh Writing Awards 2021. The prize is open to fiction and non-fiction, as long as it has a Welsh theme or setting. Entries should be 5,000-30,000 words. The winner will receive an e-publishing deal and feedback from

Writing Magazine

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Two ‘extraordinary’ books exploring survival and our relationship with nature have won this year’s CILIP Carnegie and Greenaway Medals, the UK’s oldest prizes for writing for children. UK author Anthony McGowan’s novella Lark takes the Carnegie Medal

Writer's Digest

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The best beginnings toss readers into the whirlwind that is going to be your story right as the action begins, giving them no choice but to read further. The best endings stick with readers for years after they’ve closed the book. WD editors got toge

Writing Magazine

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The winner of the Gollancz and Rivers of London BAME SFF Award is The Principles of Moments, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson (pictured left), with The Reeves’ Guild, Kyla Jardine, in second. The award was launched last year by Gollancz and Ben Aaronovitch in p

Literary Hub

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Philip Kerr’s 12th Bernie Gunther novel, Prussian Blue, is available now. What was the first book you fell in love with? First book I fell in love with was probably Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Name a classic you feel guilty about nev

Literary Hub

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Book publishing can be a tricky—and fickle—thing. Some of the classics we know and love today were instant bestsellers when they were originally published—and some were huge flops. While the numbers a book puts up during its first year in the world a

Woman & Home

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Based on the children’s book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, this animated tale sees friendly dragon Zog (Hugh Skinner) and friends form a ‘flying doctors’ team. Sir Lenny Henry narrates. BBC1 It’s Christmas 1965, and a circus has arrived in P

Writing Magazine

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The Forward poetry prize shortlists 2020 have been announced. The Forward prizes are given for excellence in contemporary British poetry Best Collection (£10,000): The Air Year, Caroline Bird; Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz; I Want! I Want!, Vi

Country Life

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‘When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day’ Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

Literary Hub

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This year’s Windham-Campbell Festival kicks off at Yale University on September 13th, and along with a glamorous awards ceremony to honor the winners of $165,000 each grant money, there will be a keynote presentation from none other than Karl Ove Kna

Literary Hub

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In case you haven’t noticed, this Sunday is Mother’s Day. Be nice to your mom. Maybe you could even hang out with her. I promise she’ll like it better than flowers that come in a box, or even a new book (sacrilege, I know). And hey, these twenty-two

Literary Hub

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Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray first appeared on June 20th, 1890, in the July issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, to major controversy and no small amount of hostility. According to Nicholas Frankel, editor of an annotated edition of th

Woman's Weekly

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Jane Austen featured Lyme Regis in two of her novels – Persuasion and Northanger Abbey – and several TV and film adaptations were filmed in the town. Author John Fowles lived here and his famous novel, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, was set here. ■

Literary Hub

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As I write this, more than 250 million people have been ordered to stay at home in attempt to slow the coronavirus pandemic. For many of those those lucky enough to be simply quarantined and not sick (or caring for anyone who is), the days have been

BBC Countryfile Magazine

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This colourful and captivating card game is based on the gorgeous book by best-selling author Robert Macfarlane and illustrator of over 40 beloved classics Jackie Morris. Simple yet engaging, the game (and book) aims to recover words from the natural

Literary Hub

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The 2017 Man Booker shortlist has been announced: Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1  Listen to Paul Auster discuss James Baldwin, activism, and Donald Trump’s rise to power. Emily Fridlund, History of Wolves Read Emily Fridlund on 11 classics of the new gothic ca

Country Life

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• The author was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature—16 times • He spoke at the famous Lady Chatterley Trial for Penguin Books in 1960. ‘Did D. H. Lawrence ever do anything for anybody?' he remarked later • Dame Gladys Cooper played Mrs Moor

Woman & Home

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I first read this when I was nine and it terrified me. We’d just moved into a Victorian house, where my bedroom was in the attic. I was convinced Bertha Mason lived in the box room and would set fire to me each night. The ‘mad woman in the attic’ is

Literary Hub

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Are you superstitious? Do you beware the Ides of March? Do you step over cracks on Fridays that happen to fall on the 13th of any given month? But especially October? Do you toast dead writers on their would-have-been birthdays? Well, me too. Which m