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Loss Soup & Other Stories | Nick Hunt

Katie Percival — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 11:31:10 +0000

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Charlotte Du Cann Q&ASally OReilly

Charlotte Du Cann — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 07:00:32 +0000

Charlotte Du Cann speaks to Writer’s Rebel’s Sally OReilly about her new book, After Ithaca – Journeys in Deep Time. Described by head Rebel Librarian Matt Rose as “part memoir, part essay, part travelogue – that follows a real life journey of descent in a world on the tip of crisis”, Charlotte’s work pulls from [...]

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Ghost MooseHilary Menos

Hilary Menos — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 07:00:49 +0000

The moose haunts my dreams, his palmate rack begging me for alms, or succour, or release. Now he stands at the end of my bed in the dark, chewing cud. I must scare him to save him as the men here kill rogue moose, their rifles cocked, their wool caps low on their heads. [...]

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A human city burning in the distanceChiara Ambrosio interviews Oliver R. Cheetham

Chiara Ambrosio and Oliver R Cheetham — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 07:00:40 +0000

A conversation between Chiara Ambrosio, co-founder of independent childrens’ book publishing house Child Be Strange, and Oliver R. Cheetham, author of Roger The Elephant. Roger the elephant was a buffalo: Or at least that’s what his parents told him, and he’d never known them to be wrong… Chiara: Your book is about [...]

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Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds | Helen Gordon

Katie Percival — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 17:20:22 +0000

[/su_column] ‘A terrific book, especially clarifying on the Anthropocene in context. I loved the especially eye-opening last chapter on the deep future, on the disposal of nuclear waste and the human failing to [...]

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The Electric BlanketFernanda Eberstadt

Fernanda Eberstadt — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 08:00:05 +0000

I was born in New York in 1960, an era when people—Americans, especially—still believed in the modern. My grandparents were wild about gadgets: at Sunday lunch, my father’s father—whose teasing always carried a whiff of terror—liked to chase his grandchildren with his electric carving knife; when we went to stay with my maternal grandmother, [...]

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Q&A with Vanessa OnwuemeziVanessa Onwuemezi

Vanessa Onwuemezi — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 08:00:15 +0000

Your first collection of short stories, Dark Neighbourhood (Fitzcarraldo, 2021), is very much about the contemporary moment. Issues of displacement and accelerating change run throughout it. It’s a brilliantly unsettling book. What effect were you hoping the stories would have on their readers? I hope that the readers will be able to rest in the ambiguity [...]

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Q & A with Dara McAnultyIncluding an extract from his non-fiction debut, Diary of a Young Naturalist

Dara McAnulty — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 23:00:59 +0000

You describe yourself as having ‘the heart of a naturalist, the head of a would-be scientist and the bones of someone who is already wearied by the apathy and destruction wielded against the natural world.’ Where do you see yourself – and the world – in 25 years’ time? Or in 50? If I [...]

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Read: Q&A with John McCullough, Hawthornden Prize 2020 winnerJohn McCullough

John McCullough — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 07:59:45 +0000

Tell us a bit about your current work on environmental issues and the pandemic, and your book about personal and social anxiety. My collection of poems Reckless Paper Birds contains a large number of poems that inhabit my experiences of severe anxiety and vulnerability. Since it came out, I’ve written a number of poems [...]

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