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A Literary Novelist’s Blog: Six Tips

A Literary Novelist’s Blog: Six Tips

Eimear McBride doesn’t have one. Nor do Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk and Sarah Ladipo Manyika. Anakana Schofield does, but it has only been updated three times this year. What don’t these women have? A blog. Hell, Cusk doesn’t even have a website. Conventional wisdom says these women can’t possibly have got published. But they have. […]

November 11, 2016 | By | 1 Reply More
Paintings in Novels

Paintings in Novels

Everyone knows the image of The Girl with a Pearl Earring. The woman’s face turned half towards the viewer, the blue and yellow turban over her hair, the golden robe, and, at the centre of the image, the outsized earring itself. The original hangs in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague. But that original is […]

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