Director Jenn Nkiru’s En Vogue, an experimental, high-concept, bold short film documenting the potent vitality of New York’s voguing and ballroom subculture, marked the arrival of an exciting new voice. ...
The idea of randomness permeates the novel, and the governing metaphor of sub-atomic indeterminacy becomes enacted in the central, meridian section, as a sort of nuclear fission producing a chain ...
The author of Gods Without Men discusses myths, UFOs, and the future of literature... I think it’s time to expand our thought of what literature can be. At the moment, ...
In life and in fiction the beginning of something horrible often comes down to a choice as simple as getting behind the wheel after a beer or two… the distinction ...
Chuck Palahniuk discusses Fight Club 2 and his latest novel, Beautiful You. Continue Reading Author Q&A with Chuck Palahniuk
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In discussion with the award-winning author of Young Skins. Continue Reading Author Q&A with Colin Barrett
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Litro talks to the author of the disturbing and thrilling Southern Reach Trilogy. Continue Reading Author Q&A with Jeff VanderMeer
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Biographer Ian Kelly talks to Litro about working alongside Vivienne Westwood. Continue Reading Author Q&A with Ian Kelly
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Marc Pastor – author of Litro’s Autumn Book Club pick, the thrilling and gruesome Barcelona Shadows – tells us about his experiences as a real life CSI, gives his advice ...
Cyberpunk guru Bruce Sterling gives us the lowdown on Augmented Reality. Continue Reading Author Q&A with Bruce Sterling
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“To begin with the weight of his genius absolutely crippled me. I had what I thought was this terrific idea that all the characters would speak as if they were ...
I find that the fun comes either side of the writing: having ideas is fun, and seeing the finished thing is fun, but the bit in the middle is just ...
“She initially comes across as good fun but superficial, but Stevie knows what is important – friendship, loyalty and justice… Stephanie or Steph just wouldn’t suit her. She has a ...
I try and write with as much power as I can muster, and somehow this always sends me back to family stories. I suppose we all have family, family defines ...
I had a very clear idea of the world in my mind and, in a way, that gave birth to the characters who in turn gave birth to the story. ...
Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie were figureheads of late twentieth-century literary London – the last great era of British fiction. So what happened when the three of them ...
I once locked myself in the bathroom at a glossy corporate function so I could carry on writing. I was supposed to be schmoozing people and making good contacts, and ...
My latest, A Treacherous Likeness, has as one of its central characters the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, an anti-hero if ever there was one. He’s a fascinating mix – enormously ...
Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is as humane and compassionate as all of Chabon’s work, its prose a continual delight (and a source of some jealousy), ...
I think I had a crush on J. D. Salinger’s Seymour Glass, and before that, a non-romantic but intense crush on Sherlock Holmes. A mystery was going to bring him ...