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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…
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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 respect.'
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‘The real choice is between being interestingly musical and boringly musical’: Francis Spufford on prose style
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‘The real choice is between being interestingly musical and boringly musical’: Francis Spufford on prose style
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The Demon Inside David Lynch: TV Drama's Worst Fiasco
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'Having a bad sentence in front of her makes her “ill”—I feel pretty much the same': Laura van den Berg answers our new questions on prose…
Oct 13, 2024
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'Having a bad sentence in front of her makes her “ill”—I feel pretty much the same': Laura van den Berg answers our new questions on prose style
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Substack roundtable on the meaning of 'literary'
Nov 19, 2024
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Speculative & literary fiction: October's best-written recent releases
Oct 6, 2024
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Auraist's best-written books of 2024
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The best-written imaginative novel of the year
Oct 18, 2024
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The Demon Inside David Lynch: TV Drama's Worst Fiasco
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Apr 21, 2024
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The Demon Inside David Lynch: TV Drama's Worst Fiasco 2
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The Demon Inside David Lynch: TV Drama's Worst Fiasco 4
Abasement and Contempt ^ Research Chemicals ^ Rampant Cheesiness ^ A Festival of Fetishes ^ Unyoung Nathan Barleys ^ Mike Pences with Greying Waxed…
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The Demon Inside David Lynch: TV Drama's Worst Fiasco 5
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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'The self-loathing cuts a bit deeper than that': Sam Kahn on substance over style
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'The self-loathing cuts a bit deeper than that': Sam Kahn on substance over style
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'A reader who buys or reads a book to associate themselves with it definitely needs a therapeutic intervention': Julian Evans on prose style
Our new questions answered by the author of Undefeatable
Dec 8, 2024
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'A reader who buys or reads a book to associate themselves with it definitely needs a therapeutic intervention': Julian Evans on prose style
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The best-written Scottish novel of the century
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US debut fiction: the best-written novels of the year and century
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Business books: the best-written of the century
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Nov 29, 2024
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The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for historical writing: the best-written work on this year's shortlist
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Nov 22, 2024
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The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for historical writing: the best-written work on this year's shortlist
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Auraist's best-written books of the century to date
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US debut fiction: the best-written novels of the year and century
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The National Book Awards (US): the best-written work on the fiction shortlist
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Nov 15, 2024
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Nonfiction: the best-written recent releases
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'A reader who buys or reads a book to associate themselves with it definitely needs a therapeutic intervention': Julian Evans on prose style
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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…
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Nonfiction: September's best-written recent release
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Sep 4, 2024
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'I have been a proud advocate of literary scuff': Travis Jeppesen on messing around with style
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Aug 25, 2024
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From our subscribers' submissions: Eleanor Anstruther's A Memoir in 65 Postcards
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Aug 9, 2024
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