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Mike Jakeman

In the Beginning Was the Blurb

Stunning, vital and multi-hued investigation into how books get blurbed.
May 23, 2021
Henry Jeffreys

Brand Management

What was Russell Brand like in 2007? Read on to find out more.
May 23, 2021
The Fence

Lockdown Culture with Werner Herzog

We recently had five minutes with the venerable German director, and used that time to ask him about his cultural pursuits during a year of lockdown.
Apr 25, 2021
Richard Smyth

The State of Nature

A classic treatise against men writing about the natural world.
Dec 7, 2020
Joe Kennedy

Herdmindedness

Do good novelists have to write good novels?
Oct 10, 2020
Rob Palk

Mild Swimming

Reporting live on Photogenica Moneyshire, last seen at Highgate Ponds.
May 23, 2020
Ella Cory-Wright

Conversations with Friends about Sally Rooney

An epistolary inquiry into the zeitgeist, the novels, the publishers and me.
Mar 2, 2020
Charlie Baker

English Lit. Canon and their Current Views on Brexit

Daniel Defoe photoshops Marina Hyde articles, and Chaucer just has a bizarre obsession with Anna Soubry.
Dec 23, 2019
Anonymous

12 Rules For Getting Your First Book Published

Our anonymous literary maven tells you how to get published.
Jul 1, 2019

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