Dec 2015 · Blog
The Making of Books
I teach writing and I write. That’s what pays my way in life. Recently I wondered what is most important to me – is it teaching, writing, academia? The answer was quite clear. Books.…
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May 2015 · Blog
Will Self and the Creative writing PhD
In his piece on the Death of the Novel in The Guardian, Will Self comments on his own PhD Creative Writing student: Creative writing programmes burgeoning throughout our universities are ‘a self-perpetuating and self-financing literary set-aside scheme…
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