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Procrastination

‘Pseudonyms are rarely straightforward’

Ship Out

If some books are good because they don’t sell, others are just as likely to be judged good because they do…

If some books are good because they don’t sell, others are just as likely to be judged good because they do…

Octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings

Why Elif Batuman doesn’t read reviews

Why Elif Batuman doesn’t read reviews

Life / Art

‘Never return to the places where you’ve been happy’

‘Never return to the places where you’ve been happy’

‘The Late American Novel’

Book excerpt:

‘The Late American Novel’

‘Why Do You Write?’ by Herman Koch

Short story:

‘Why Do You Write?’ by Herman Koch

“True Story”

Beryl Bainbridge’s Writing Life

Podcast:

Beryl Bainbridge’s Writing Life

Zadie Smith: “People are always dreaming, when they are reading novels, of some kind of perfection in them, some kind of purity”

‘How Should a Person Be?’ by Sheila Heti

Book excerpt:

‘How Should a Person Be?’ by Sheila Heti

“I have never been able to think that I am anything but just a non-bluffing person”

“Sicilian is like English: sharp, short, the less said the better”

“Sicilian is like English: sharp, short, the less said the better”

Leave My Prose Alone

When Book Reviews Kill

When Book Reviews Kill

‘A sprite of the meadow, a naiad of lakes, a nymph of the woods’

‘A sprite of the meadow, a naiad of lakes, a nymph of the woods’