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Bookmark The novel is dead (this time it's for real) | Books |…
If you happen to be a writer, one of the great benisons of having children is that your personal culture-mine is equipped with its own canaries.

May 2 2014, 9:56am | Comments
Bookmark Music moved on after modernism, but whatever happened to fiction?
The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy – rather like a long-term marriage. At the securely…

October 12 2011, 9:54am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Crusoe film adaptations and *that* footprint Robinson Crusoe film adaptations. Which are the best ones? Also, that footprint... For a project I am working on, I want to isolate the moment in Robinson Crusoe where he discovers the savage footprint, imprinted in the sand, for the first time. In…

September 29 2011, 5:31am | Comments
Bookmark Death Is Not the End (Long Live theory!)
Was theory a gigantic hoax? On the contrary. It was the only salvation, for a twenty year period, from two colossal abdications by American thinkers and writers. From about 1975 to…

August 18 2011, 1:48am | Comments
Bookmark B.S.Johnson - Albert Angelo
Albert Angelo is the second novel written by the experimental novelist B. S. Johnson (1933–1973). Published in 1964, the book achieved fame for having holes cut in several pages as a…

February 16 2011, 6:59am | Comments
Bookmark The Novel is not under threat from technology
One of the first things I did with my palm-sized glossy black pebble of the future was to download loads of free books using the app Stanza. I read The Island…

January 10 2011, 3:34am | Comments
Bookmark Goodbye to the Graphosphere
For half a millennium, across continents and civilizations, the human readership did almost nothing but grow and consolidate itself. Constantly more people in more and more places could read, and could…

July 17 2010, 12:36pm | Comments
Bookmark HOW TO: Write a Novel Using the Web
Though you’ll still have to do your writing using the old fashioned method — one word at a time — web applications and social media have made the process of writing…

September 17 2009, 12:27am | Comments
Bibliography The Third Policeman

April 16 2009, 1:11pm | Comments

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