Unreel writing
There's something of fairy-tale magic in this idea of writing as a thread teased out from the writer's cupboard of...
All the details of the tree
A fine injunction to a writer, first to face truth and then to give unhidden all the details. Neither is...
Nonsense daubers
Folly, speaking from her light-hearted pulpit, lays into another bunch of self-serious fools, those who write books, or as she...
To go or not to go
The Hungarian poet György Faludy weighs up whether to stay in Hungary or to leave at the start of the...
Frank impiety
An incisive summary of the effect of Irish writers on English literature; I liked the English-rose-pruning metaphor and the 'frank...
Your chosen family
Most readers, particularly those who make little distinction between the past and present in seeking their sustenance, will be able to...
Missing homework
Here Steinbeck suffers a bout of exam nerves before being bombarded with highly intellectual questions from his counterparts in the...
Architects of the human soul
On their month long trip to the Soviet Union in 1947, John Steinbeck and the photographer Robert Capa had several...
On cultural relations
John Steinbeck and Robert Capa wrestle with their status in seeking some Soviet organization which would be willing to adopt...
The magpie writer
Guilty as charged - I had a sense of recognition when I read this. Sometimes it feels less...
What it takes to be an author
In my naivety, I thought you just had to write and publish a book to be an author, but apparently...
Technique as dousing
In discussing the technique of writing, Seamus Heaney conjures a water diviner as a metaphor. At first glance far-fetched, as...
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