This month our blog theme is ‘Love in All its Forms’ – we’re celebrating the diverse ways in which love is depicted in literature – so we asked our authors to tell us who their dream fictional date would be. Perhaps unexpectedly, Nell Zink would like to exist in a Late Romantic utopia with an elderly nobleman from the pages of an interminable work of 19th Century Austrian bourgeois realism…
This month our blog theme is ‘Love in All its Forms’ – we’re celebrating the diverse ways in which love is depicted in literature – so we asked our authors to tell us who their dream fictional date would be. Philip Hoare unhesitatingly chose Ishmael, the able-bodied seaman who narrates Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’…
This month our blog theme is ‘Love in All its Forms’ – we’re celebrating the diverse ways in which love is depicted in literature – so we asked our authors to tell us who their dream fictional date would be. First off, here’s Judith Claire Mitchell, who (with stunning timeliness, considering recent news) chose Atticus Finch, protagonist of Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’…
