This month, Jane Davis will be donating profits earned from An Unknown Woman sales to the Grenfell Fire Relief Fund, benefiting survivors of the fire that claimed more than seventy lives and left hundreds displaced.
Already longlisted for the World Fantasy Award, Roz Morris’s novel Lifeform Threewas named a finalist in the People’s Book Prize.
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Patty Somlo'sPULL OUT A CLEAN SHEET OF PAPER 6/21/17
If you want to feel bad about yourself, there are many things you can do. Shopping for a swimsuit will certainly work, especially if you’ve gained some weight over the winter. A phone call with your ex-husband or wife is sure to bring up at least a smidgen of self-loathing. Or a visit with your family, say at Thanksgiving or Christmas, might do.
David James's THE BENEFITS OF NOT BEING FAMOUS 6/7/17
Some nights, when I’m lamenting my “place” in the literary world, when I realize I am essentially unknown after writing and publishing for over forty years and will probably remain this way, I begin to think about the benefits of not being famous. And then I begin to feel sorry for those writers of great notoriety. They have no idea what they’re missing.
T.K. McNeil's POLITICAL ART IS NOT ALWAYS PROPAGANDA 5/31/17
There are ideas that, no matter how much evidence there is against them, take years to debunk. One of the most tenacious are ideas surrounding political art. For decades now, the very idea of mixing art with politics has been something of a dubious one. The general reaction to political art in the current context being an assumption that it is some sort of propaganda and therefore not to be trusted and/or pointless in its endeavour because 'art has never really changed anything'.