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Jason Latnar wrote a new blog post
recently on Twitter – a collection of our #WritingPrompts in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 5 months ago
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Blog: The big idea: should we abolish the Treasury? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 5 months agoThis powerful institution is filled with brilliant people – but is it holding Britain back?When we think of things that need fixing in the British state, it’s nat […]
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Blog: Poem of the week: Slow Waker by Thom Gunn from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 5 months agoThis portrait of a sleepy adolescent at breakfast is intensely affectionate – without ever sentimentalising youthSlow WakerI look at the nephew,eighteen, across t […]
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Blog: Bad Relations by Cressida Connolly review – deaths in the family from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 5 months agoSpanning three generations, from the battlefields of Crimea to a Cornish farm in the 1970s, this novel deftly navigates the emotional minefield of a clan at warTwo […]
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Blog: I Watch Films: Count Yorga, Vampire from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 5 months agoCount Yorga, Vampire A mysterious box is carried out the Port of Los Angeles while a narrator talks to us about vampires. Then we find ourselves at a séance, […]
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Blog: I Used to Live Here Once by Miranda Seymour review – the troubled life of Jean Rhys from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 5 months agoThe author emerges from this compelling biography as a difficult outsider whose twin passions were feckless men and drinkIn 1907, Ella Gwendoline (“Gwen”) Rees Wil […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Mangle from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 2 years, 5 months agoThe post Word of the Day – Mangle appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Does suffering have a purpose? in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author): 2 years, 5 months agoI’ve been thinking about suffering in the world. There is so much of it and it all seems so needless.
That got me thinking. Does suffering have a purpose – a wider, deeper, or bigger picture meaning?
I […]
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Blog: The Far Side of the Moon by Clive Stafford Smith review – a death row lawyer’s soul-searching memoir from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 5 months agoBy telling the life stories of his bipolar father and a convicted murderer he tried to save from the electric chair, Stafford Smith raises urgent moral questions […]
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Jason Latnar replied to the topic Is the genre you read the same as the one you write? in the forum General Chat 2 years, 5 months ago
No. Not at all.
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Blog: Word of the Day – Bimbo from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 2 years, 5 months agoThe post Word of the Day – Bimbo appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: William Brewer: ‘The Red Arrow isn’t a drug book, but…’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 5 months agoThe American author on how his own experience of psychedelic therapy sparked his debut novel, and his poems about the opioid epidemicWilliam Brewer, 33, is the […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
Can you think of any ways to turn something comforting into something horrific? in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 5 months agoIf you love horror (writing or reading it) then you know that some of the most effective horror turns something comforting or safe into something menacing or horrific. What safe to horrific ideas can you suggest?
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Blog: Books I Read in April from
A Little Blog of Books in the group Book bloggers 2 years, 5 months agoHow Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book by Rebecca Lee offers a fascinating look at the journey of making a book from initial idea in the author’s head to […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Skirl from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 2 years, 5 months agoThe post Word of the Day – Skirl appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: ‘The poems began to dance among themselves’: curating a fresh mixtape of Black British poetry from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 5 months agoA companion to 1998’s The Fire People, Kayo Chingonyi’s anthology creates a space for a new generation of voices to express the wide range of their workPutting tog […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Sewerage in sea but we get blue flags anyway? in the group Thanet Star: 2 years, 5 months agoHow did we get so many blue flags when Southern Water keep discharging into the sea?
This year, Thanet received seven (7) blue flags and there (3) seaside awards for our beaches. That seems odd given how many […]
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Blog: Poisoned legacy: why the future of power can’t be nuclear from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 5 months agoMounting tensions with Russia, a global pandemic and a reckless scramble for nuclear energy: the echoes of 1957 are alarming – we would do well to heed themOn 10 O […]
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Blog: Tom Gauld on the author meeting the digital marketing team – cartoon from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 5 months agoContinue reading…
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Blog: I Read Books: Zothique from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 5 months agoZothique Clark Ashton Smith wrote a series of fantasy stories set in Zothique, which is supposedly a far future continent of Earth. They tend to revolve around […]
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Blog: Reward System by Jem Calder review – slaves to the algorithm from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 5 months agoSix interlinked stories from a superb new writer about young Londoners and their smartphone addictionsIn recent years, much of the most innovative work in the […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
Why is Ramsgate so dangerous? in the group Thanet Star: 2 years, 5 months agoRamsgate is a hotspot for crime but especially Violence and sexual offences. It is one of the most dangerous towns in Kent rating well above the Kent average.
Ramsgate crime statistics.
No crimes […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Lorgnette from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 2 years, 5 months agoThe post Word of the Day – Lorgnette appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: Meg Mason: ‘Jane Austen taught me there really is such a thing as reading for pleasure’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 5 months agoThe author on being inspired by Nina Stibbe and taking comfort in the works of Nancy MitfordMy earliest reading memoryMy mother reading me Terry Furchgott’s P […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
The secret of the river in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 5 months agoThere is a place along a river with a secret. The place is a long walk from the town, hard to get to, and rarely visited. The secret is that swimming in the water there heals all diseases and restores […]
