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Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey writes for Auraist on prose style: 'All writers walk around in a huff thinking their work deserves more…
Plus our final pick from the recent releases in nonfiction
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‘The real choice is between being interestingly musical and boringly musical’: Francis Spufford on prose style
Plus more of the best-written nonfiction of the month ^ And Parts 10 to 14 of The Demon Inside David Lynch
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The Demon Inside David Lynch: TV Drama's Worst Fiasco
Phew 1 ^ Ella-Laura ^ Juegos Sexuales ^ All Ready for the Big Night ^ The Contempt-Filled History of Twin Peaks
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The Demon Inside David Lynch

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The Demon Inside David Lynch: TV Drama's Worst Fiasco
Phew 1 ^ Ella-Laura ^ Juegos Sexuales ^ All Ready for the Big Night ^ The Contempt-Filled History of Twin Peaks
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Something of an Anti-Climax ^ The Absolute Rock Bottom ^ The Descent into Hell
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Comic-Turn Green Glove Versus Pantomime-Pinballing-Blob BOB ^ The One ^ The Erasures ^ The Prank
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Abasement and Contempt ^ Research Chemicals ^ Rampant Cheesiness ^ A Festival of Fetishes ^ Unyoung Nathan Barleys ^ Mike Pences with Greying Waxed…
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Phew 2 ^ The Manage Mother’s Poison Explanation ^ + Stretched Finnegans Wake Allusions + Stretched Kalki Allusion + Stretched I Ching Allusion and the…
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Books of the Century

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One of the best-written novels of the century
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One of the best-written novels of the century: Harrow by Joy Williams
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Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch picks his best-written works of fiction of the century to date
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Auraist's best-written books of the century to date
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The best-written Scottish novel of the century
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The best-written recent literary fiction: Back in the Day by Oliver Lovrenski
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The best-written recent literary fiction
And the author answers our questions on prose technique.
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The best-written book of the month
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The best-written recent literary fiction and nonfiction
Links to two new picks. Plus the latest pick from our subscribers' submissions.
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