The New Statesman
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The Fantasy of Genre
Kazuo Ishiguro and Neil Gaiman discuss genre and its role in the evolution of stories. The interview is part of a special Gaiman and Amanda Palmer collaboration issue at the New Statesman.
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No Offense, But…
Ultimately, a writer needs to shed self-restraint and be at least slightly anti-social to succeed, and hope those they know are understanding. At the New Statesman, Oliver Farry delves into the wide variety of ways to offend people through writing,…
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Notable Interns
In The Physiology of the Employee (1841)—a pamphlet-length essay on the misery of bureaucracy—the French novelist Honoré de Balzac wrote: “An intern is to the Civil Service what a choirboy is to the Church, or what an army child is…
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Geoff Dyer Attends Geoff Dyer Conference
Birkbeck, University of London hosted the first international conference on the acclaimed British author Geoff Dyer. In attendance: Geoff Dyer. Aside from the rather British problem of sorting out how to refer to the author—”Dyer” would be used to refer…
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From Manic Pixie Dream Girl to Stable Banshee Real Woman
“I’m fascinated by this character and what she means to people,” writes Laurie Penny about the Manic Pixie Dream Girl archetype, “because the experience of being her—of playing her—is so wildly different than it seems to appear from the outside.”…