No fairytale: what happened to the real children behind fiction’s best-loved characters? | Books

No fairytale: what happened to the real children behind fiction’s best-loved characters? | Books

I’d loved the children for years before discovering they were real. I can almost summon the magic I felt when I first saw the photographs that proved it: the little boy clad... Read more »
Did a Chatbot Write a Prize-Winning Story? Does It Matter?

Did a Chatbot Write a Prize-Winning Story? Does It Matter?

In early May, the Commonwealth Foundation announced the five regional winners for its influential Short Story Prize, which recognizes unpublished short fiction. One of the awardees, a Trinidadian writer named Jamir Nazir,... Read more »
Flamboyance by Jack Parlett review – a serious study of the spectacular | Biography books

Flamboyance by Jack Parlett review – a serious study of the spectacular | Biography books

A friend’s mother once told me that for a couple of years in the 1980s – as the Conservatives were waging war on the miners and she spent late nights at Marxist-feminist... Read more »
Flamboyance by Jack Parlett review – a serious study of the spectacular | Biography books

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, June 9th

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‘Nobody is pretending to like my work because of my fresh-faced good looks’: the pros of being a debut novelist at 51 | Books

‘Nobody is pretending to like my work because of my fresh-faced good looks’: the pros of being a debut novelist at 51 | Books

Recently I was at a film event where I was introduced to a big producer by a very nice actor. The actor said, “this is Patrick, he has a debut novel coming... Read more »
Booker prize launches new Quick Read in effort to boost adult reading rates | Books

Booker prize launches new Quick Read in effort to boost adult reading rates | Books

An initiative that aims to widen access to Booker prize-winning authors is set to launch this week, as research finds that more than a third of UK adults find it hard to... Read more »
‘Nobody is pretending to like my work because of my fresh-faced good looks’: the pros of being a debut novelist at 51 | Books

A British Childhood by Frank Cottrell-Boyce review – are we raising a bookless generation? | Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Every day, on my walk to work, I pass a primary school. A group of little people are being dropped off by parents. They are met at the gates by a teacher... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 8th

Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 8th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. Source link Read more »
No fairytale: what happened to the real children behind fiction’s best-loved characters? | Books

Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer review – fun in the Tuscan sun | Fiction

‘There’s a place in Italy in need of someone. Why don’t you look into that?” Inspired by his two-year stint directing a writers’ residency, the Santa Maddalena Foundation outside Florence, with these... Read more »
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