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'Sometimes you want to let yourself vamp for the cheap seats': Cally Fiedorek on prose style
Plus our next pick from the recent releases in literary fiction
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'I have been a proud advocate of literary scuff': Travis Jeppesen on messing around with style
Plus a new pick from our subscribers' submissions
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Sean McNulty
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Literary fiction: August's best-written recent releases II
Read the openings of our picks below ^ Plus Mary Tabor's discussion of prose style
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Literary fiction: August's best-written recent releases I
Read the openings of our picks below ^ Plus Part 39 of The Demon Inside David Lynch
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'There’s a fear of great writing, of reaching for it, of calling it that': Eleanor Anstruther on prose style
Detailed discussion of writing and editing from the author of A Memoir in 65 Postcards ^ Plus Part 37 of The Demon Inside David Lynch
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From our subscribers' submissions: Eleanor Anstruther's A Memoir in 65 Postcards
Read an extended extract below ^ Plus The Rock Bottom Revealed, Part 36 of The Demon Inside David Lynch
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'I only ever let something go when I'm at the point of barely being able to see straight anymore'
Ruby Todd on prose style ^ Plus Part 30 of The Demon Inside David Lynch
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Our next pick from our subscribers' submissions
Plus The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
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Our first pick from our subscribers' submissions
Read the opening pages of Susan Hayden's 'Now You Are a Missing Person', a hybrid memoir in poems, stories and fragments
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