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Blog: The Stasi Poetry Circle review – East Germany’s unsettling war with words from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 8 months agoPhilip Oltermann’s account of how the Stasi decided to use poems as a means of fighting capitalism is fascinating, strange and troublingThe folk singer Woody G […]
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Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 8 months agoI have.There’s an edition of Neuromancer as part of Penguin Galaxy’s SF Classics, with an introduction by me in it.
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Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 8 months agoI finish books before I turn them in. Sometimes (eg Ocean at the End of the Lane) what I hand over is exactly what’s published. Sometimes (eg Coraline) a p […]
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Blog: Francis Spufford: ‘I felt that to call myself a writer would be a boast’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 8 months agoThe author of Light Perpetual on a childhood spent hiding in books, dropping a V2 on a fictional London borough and giving up church politicsFrancis Spufford, born […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
The case of the man who was me in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 8 months agoColin Blaze is visited by an elderly man who claimed to be 204-years-old. The man’s faded and ancient-looking passport says he is Colin Blaze. They even share a birthday.
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Blog: Sheila Heti: ‘Books by women still get treated differently from those by men’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 8 months agoAfter her controversial novel about motherhood, the Canadian author has turned the spotlight on her father. She talks about grief, honesty – and her decision not t […]
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Blog: I Watch Films: The Creature From The Haunted Sea from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 8 months agoThe Creature From The Haunted Sea It’s the Cuban revolution and Renzo Capettto, a deported American gambler and mobster, has been employed to smuggle gold out o […]
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Blog: did you ever get used to the daily covid tests or was it always just as bad as the first time you had the thing shoved up your nose? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 8 months agoDifferent covid tests in different countries are different. New Zealand covid tests have been uniformly unpleasant and quite often actually painful, as the tester […]
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Blog: In the editing phase of my text-art-story-thingy (which I am dying to show you once it’s finished). Wise friends have commented on the first draft and I had a six month pause from it. Fresh eyes, Bewilderment and All that. Question: When presenting second draft to the publishing profession, should it be “No stone unturned thrice”-finished or “I’m still mulling over whether or not doing this or that minor change”-finished? All I hear is to be prepared to make changes suggested by the publisher and that kind of make me lean toward the latter kind of finished. As to not be to adamant in knowing exactly why each sentence is where it is and why. Really it is a house of card of intricate lies and changing small bits will affect so much anyway but still: Finished or really finished-finished? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 8 months agoI finish books before I turn them in. Sometimes (eg Ocean at the End of the Lane) what I hand over is exactly what’s published. Sometimes (eg Coraline) a p […]
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Blog: question, i’m reading a copy of Smoke and Mirrors i found at a garage sale and ran into a piece of slang i’m not familiar with, in Troll Bridge you wrote “His hair was long, like one of my sister’s little plastic gonks, and his eyes bulged. He was naked and his penis hung from the bush of gonk hair between his legs.” urban dictionary has Not been useful, i texted the groupchat to help me play Guess The Weird British Slang and we were at a loss, what the hell is a gonk? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 8 months agoThis is where I’d normally say, Google. Google is your friend. But Googling “Gonks” would give you the wrong thing, because lots of toys have sprung up in the l […]
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Blog: sir have you read Neuromancer by William Gibson? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 8 months agoI have.There’s an edition of Neuromancer as part of Penguin Galaxy’s SF Classics, with an introduction by me in it.
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Blog: Isabel Allende: ‘I have been displaced most of my life’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 8 months agoThe Chilean American author on the allure of Arabian Nights, the inspiration of Gabriel García Márquez and the heartbreak of Jack LondonMy earliest reading m […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
I dream of water in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 8 months agoEvery night when you go to sleep you have a vivid dream that you are struggling to stay above the water of a slightly choppy sea with no boat or land in sight. When you wake up, you and your bed are soaked with briny water.
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Blog: The Art of Personal Writing that’s Not Self-Indulgent from
Copyblogger in the group Copy Blogger Fans 2 years, 8 months agoWhenever I talk about personal writing, and I advise that you should write for a specific group of people to…
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Blog: Mercia’s Take by Daniel Wiles review – a brilliant debut from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 9 months agoThe hand-to-mouth life of a 19th-century miner in the Black Country shows the human cost of the industrial revolutionMichael Cash is a hewer – he descends into t […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Colin Blaze gets a box in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 9 months agoOn a slow Sunday afternoon, a substitute postman finally figured out how to deliver a parcel to the office of Colin Blaze. This in itself was impressive but it was nothing compared to the weird collection of […]
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Blog: I Read Books: Lumious from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 9 months agoLuminous A short story collection by science fiction writer Greg Egan. Egan is very high concept by which I mean his stories are driven by the scientific ideas, […]
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Blog: 24. How Not to Fall In Love from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 2 years, 9 months agoHow Not to Fall in Love. Jacqueline Firkins. 2021. [December] 239 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: I’m kneeling in front of Frosty the Snowman’s […]
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Blog: New Animal by Ella Baxter review – bleak comedy of sex and estrangement from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 9 months agoA mortuary makeup artist negotiates the landscape of 21st-century sexuality in this sharp debutNever mind new animals: Ella Baxter’s debut novel looks at first t […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Of Andipardmin born in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 9 months agoYou have invested great efforts into fitting in where you live. You have good friends, a decent job, and nothing remotely strange has happened near you for some years.
However, you do not come from this world. […]
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Blog: I Watch Films: Terror (1978) from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 9 months agoTerror (1978) The unhelpfully named Terror opens with a woman accused of witchcraft being hunted down and killed. This turns out to have been a film made by James […]
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Harryclaus became a registered member 2 years, 9 months ago
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Blog: 23. I, Robot from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 2 years, 9 months agoI, Robot. Isaac Asimov. 1950. 304 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: I looked at my notes and I didn’t like them. I’d spent three days at U.S. Robots and mig […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Colin Blaze and the complexity of history in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 9 months agoColin Blaze was grabbing a coffee with his assistant Harry. This in itself was not unusual. What was strange was that the police chief marched in, chewed Blaze a new one for failing to hand in paperwork, and then […]
