Interviews & Reviews
Liz Wood interviews Marisa Crawford about The Weird Sister Collection
“Lately I, like a lot of us, have been feeling so much despair and hopelessness at the state of this country and the world, and I think calling on our elders is instructional in these times.”
Jonah Howell reviews Andrzej Tichý's Purity
“In each new narrator there is a radiant hope against hopelessness . . . .”
Aileen Keown Vaux interviews Danez Smith about Bluff
“I wrote this book to rescue and armor something in myself but also to give tools, fuel, companionship, and hope to folks who pick these pages up.” |
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September 1: Claire Fuller is the author of the novels Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize; Swimming Lessons; Bitter Orange; Unsettled Ground, which won the Costa Novel Award and was a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and most recently, The Memory of Animals. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband. Subscribe by August 31! |
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