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A lot of people make the mistake of thinking writers are just like ordinary people. They’re not. And when they move into your home they come with a special list of requirements that you ignore at your peril. This extract from The Complete Guide to the Care and Training of the Writer in Your Life provides handy tips that will ensure a smooth transition, for example, ‘Designate a warm, cozy area of your home as a “studio.” Your writer will appreciate a couch and blankets or other soft bedding material.’ Read more…
Today sees the launch of six of Penelope Fitzgerald’s backlist titles as ebooks: The Beginning of Spring, The Blue Flower, The Bookshop, Human Voices, The Gate of Angels and At Freddie’s.
Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. One of the first female students at Oxford University she studied at Somerville College and after graduating she went on to work at the BBC during World War II. She later worked at Italia Conti and in a Suffolk bookshop. Her literary career began in 1975, at the age of 58, with the publication of a biography of Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, followed two years later by The Knox Brothers, a joint biography of her father (Edmund Knox) and uncles. Read more…
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Google predictive search doesn’t just throw up similar searches, it reveals poetry generated by a nation of inquisitive searchers. Google Poetics has brought all these poems/ searches together. The phrase ‘i oft’ leads to reflections on birds and a meditation on the past while ‘can a’ is a harsher poem that deals with pregnancy tests and viruses. The definitive digital anthology for our modern world.
