The Guardian
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Olympic Fury
This Guardian article reflects upon author Iain Sinclair and his relationship with London. In response to his new book Ghost Milk, the article argues that the saving grace—and brilliance—of the book is its “fury.” At the receiving end: the 2012…
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Phone Hacking and Its Here, There and Everywhere Influences
News International’s phone hacking scandal has regenerated all over the web as the scandal continues to unfold, tracing back the hacking and subsequent bribery that’s been happening for years–more and more articles appear detailing the latest happenings in Parliament. With…
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I’m on a Boat
Fear not, the saddening disappearance of independent bookstores is being countered by literature lovers all over the globe. The Book Barge, brainchild of Sarah Henshaw, is a canal boat turned bookstore that flows leisurely on the UK’s canal network. See…
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Vendela Vida Through the Years
The Guardian profiles author and editor, Vendela Vida—tracing her story-telling history back to the lies of her childhood, the first time writers intersected with her Bay Area existence, to the release of her most recent novel, The Lovers (which is…
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O’Connor’s Cartoons
In light of a forthcoming publication of Flannery O’Connor’s early drawings, this Guardian article takes a look at her cartoons. The drawings—taken from the author’s high school and undergraduate years—are characterized as “O’Connor’s entry point to creativity” and reveal the…
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Cliché Shaming
At The Guardian poets reveal “the expressions that have become such cliches that they have lost all meaning.” Explanations included. “Devastated” (and its variations) is a repeat winner. Is that more of a British thing? Also: “Britain is leading the…
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John Locke Remix
There’s a new John Locke who is less known for his philosophy on natural rights, and is more famous for his e-book success. In fact, he is “the first self-published author to sell a million Kindle e-books,” which makes him…
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Toward You
With Toward You, Jim Krusoe completes his trilogy about death, resurrection, and the afterlife, a series of novels that are both comic and consequential.
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How Old Is The Novel?
“At university in the early 1970s, I was led to believe the novel originated in England in the 18th century, and no professor told me otherwise as I pursued my PhD in the 1980s. Sometimes Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe was…
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Jeanette Winterson on Grief, Being “Post-Heterosexual”
“Susie (Orbach) calls herself post-heterosexual. I like that description because I like the idea of people being fluid in their sexuality. I don’t for instance consider myself to be a lesbian. I want to be beyond those descriptive constraints.” “Over…
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A Recipe to Ruin Your Sunday
The Guardian pointed out Wednesday that every Life Magazine is now available at Google Books, and now, thanks to them, my week has been ruined. And now I’ve ruined yours! There is so much to find. The Guardian discovered this…
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Breaking Laws to Break the Story
Rupert Murdoch‘s U.K. tabloid News of the World, and its parent company News Group Newspapers (also owned by Murdoch), are under scrutiny after The Guardian reported that the group paid 1 million pounds (1.6 million dollars) in out-of-court settlements to…