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Writing about war, and the pity of war.

Has literary fiction ‘lost the plot’?

Curry was best known for playing the outlandish Frank-N-Furter in cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Dani Garavelli noted recently on Substack that there was no real longform outlet or national platform for Scottish literary criticism anymore.

Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.

The paralysis of choice

Anatomy of a mild injury

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I still haven’t had the chance to write anything new for Substack over the last few weeks.

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'Every page, every sentence bears a remarkable intellig…

Almond, Wood, Rundell, Roth.