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“Aesthetic experience, especially reading books, is something that is bounded; I mean you’re not in the world, you’re looking at a text, but the way you read the text, for most of us, is that we make pictures in our mind.”
Siri Hustvedt

 

Sadie_Jones_290INTERVIEWS
Michael Cunningham‘s feelings for snow
Siri Hustvedt unmasked
Joshua Ferris: Down in the mouth
Straight-talking Sadie Jones
Nicholson Baker’s smokes and mirrors
Kerry Hudson: Love and need
Jerry Pinto in full voice
Gong Ji-young: Dictators’ daughters

 

Harristown_Sisters_224CONTEXTS
Michelle Lovric: Medusa myths
Andy Miller: So long, and thanks for all the towels
Kalyan Ray: Crossing bridges
Jon Stallworthy: War and imagination
Cristina Henríquez: Home
Tim Glencross: MA vs LON?

 

A WRITER”S LIFE
Mona Simpson: Hot coffee and no haiku

 

SHORT STORIES
Marina Keegan: Challenger deep
Tove Jansson: The rain
Ronaldo Wrobel: Mariano takes stock

 

POETRY
Peter Wyton: Unmentioned in dispatches

 

NEW VOICES
Nora Nadjarian: Not Etgar Keret

 

untitledEXTRACTS
Fredrik Backman: Ove does his rounds
Marco Malvaldi: A whiff of murder
Vinicius Jatobá: The invention of futebol
Vanessa da Mata: Eve’s mango

 

FAVOURITE STORIES
Linda Mannheim: George Saunders’ ‘My Flamboyant Grandson’
Rivka Galchen: Any one from ten

 

WRITERS’ PATHS
Stephen Burke: A novelist by default
Laura McBride: Yaddo, Yaddo

 

DIARY
Andy Miller: To Penge and beyond

 

INFLUENCES
Harriet Lane: The tricycle man
Alafair Burke: Lawyers that thrill

 

Women_of_Britain_featurePICTURE STORY
Matthew Shaw and Alison Bailey: Enduring war

 

TIPS FOR WRITERS
Jill Dawson: Ignore silly rules

 

TOP TENS
Toni Marques: Inside the marvellous city