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Invited to the Best Parties

Magdalena Slyk: Congrats Tomas!

Magdalena Slyk: Congrats Tomas!

Crowded

Beryl Bainbridge’s Writing Life

Podcast:

Beryl Bainbridge’s Writing Life

‘Sempre Susan’ by Sigrid Nunez

Book excerpt:

‘Sempre Susan’ by Sigrid Nunez

‘Such restraint is the key to lucid and revelatory writing about sex.’

‘Such restraint is the key to lucid and revelatory writing about sex.’

Beryl Bainbridge: ‘To give value to existence death must be regarded as an art’

Turd Blossom thinks in slogans

Hitchoxicated

‘If these books were any better, it would mean the authors’ lives would’ve had to be a lot worse.’

Mailer went big

Jessica Crispin is Always Searching

‘Adding to Marlantes’s frustration was the fact that it was never his writing that was being rejected – no agent ever even wanted to see it – but the idea behind it’

Eric Hobsbawn: My Years as a Jazz Reporter

Reflections from the grandparent stage of life

Shit! Bukowski the family guy

Abraham Verghese: ‘But it all began with what the emperor saw on a morning drive.’

“It struck me that the virtual worlds which I came across were a more modern solution to that same problem: how can we be together when we feel so alone?”

‘Mr. Nixon never did anything wrong unless someone else had done something like it first. And all evil disappears if it has a precedent.’

‘Whether at large in the back streets of Wigan or Marrakech, Orwell was invariably led, as it were, by his nose.’