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Mental Health Month: Awareness Essay on Writing
An urgent and essential essay on bearing up your mental health, shortcomings and all.
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Book Review: At Home in the New World, by Maria Terrone
In her collection of essays, At Home in the New World, Maria Terrone explores the world through the lens of an Italian-American New Yorker.
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Book Review: Stubborn Archivist, by Yara Rodrigues Fowler
A stylistically complex novel, Stubborn Archivist blends prose poetry and disjointed narratives, the result of which is a novel with a sense of urgency.
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A Writing Group, and Horses
What, a friend who came to visit me asked, is a writing group?
It’s just like a barn, I said. Horses.
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Book Review: The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually, by Jinny Koh
When you expect The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually to become a whodunnit it morphs more into a mystery and almost becomes a ghost story, but don’t let me give ...
Book Review: The Cartography of Others, by Catherine McNamara
The backdrops are real and effectively drawn but it is in charting the contours of the human condition that McNamara succeeds with skilful interpretation.
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Digital Subscription, Litro #173: Comedy, Print Issues
Idea For A Poetry Show
Poetry emerges; authorial identity becomes confused, drifts.
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Book Review: Live Show, Drinks Included, by Vicky Grut
I cannot say, hand on heart, that every single story was for me, but I can say I was never bored, never tempted to put the book down and come ...
Book Review: Conradology
The author who would become known internationally as Joseph Conrad was born in 1857 in northern Ukraine, a region home to a significant community of ethnic Poles. ...
Book Review: Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World, by Lyndall Gordon
In this book Gordon takes five women writers who battled against the social norms and takes us behind the characters they created
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Book Review: Hollow Shores, by Gary Budden
All the stories are of our era, this decade – social media, Amazon, portfolio purchase of residential apartments, extortionate rents, franchise coffee outlets, Sports Direct, Saint George’s Cross flags, parakeets ...
Sex, Scripture and Lashings of Classic Twee Pop: A review of The First Day, by Phil Harrison
In the beginning Samuel Orr and Anna Stuart, two of the main protagonists of this novel, have nonchalant sex in Belfast. Lots of nonchalant sex. On the sly. In her ...
Book Review: Kumukanda, by Kayo Chingonyi
The beating heart of these poems is music, not least because of the poet’s own cross-genre creative output and a song’s uncanny ability to situate the reader immediately in a ...
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Litro #162: Literary Highlife | Transcripts of the Social Imaginary in Accra: Beyond Oxford Street
To get to the proper understanding of the social imaginary from looking at the street, however, a number of things have to be borne in mind. The first that Accra’s ...
Annals of Burp #964
unless you believe that belief in evolution is an innate phenotype arising from a single or cluster of genes that can be selected for—if this were the case, then in ...
Are Marriage and Independence Mutually Exclusive?
Are marriage and independence mutually exclusive? Explored through Jane Austen’s Emma and Charlotte Smith’s Emmeline.
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Dust-free
No. That won’t work. A watch will make me think of time and time reminds me of death and death means funerals and at funerals there is always some guy standing ...
The Floating Mountain
Sometimes I like to pretend that I’m not really a city boy. Mostly on those days when the London air feels lifeless and vile, and so still that it sits ...
The Dog
When I’ve walked away from all the images of massacres and witches, bandits and clashing armies and lunatics, and when the pictures of kings and gods have faded away, the ...
Arts & Culture, Literature, Random Ruminations
Get Reading For a Longer Life
A new study to be published in the September issue of the journal Social Science & Medicine has found that people who read books for 30 minutes a day lived ...