The author of Gods Without Men discusses myths, UFOs, and the future of literature.
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Chuck Palahniuk discusses Fight Club 2 and his latest novel, Beautiful You.
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Fourteen years later, Wendy C. Ortiz sifts the relics of an illicit relationship between teacher and student in her memoir Excavation. Continue Reading Excavating a Painful Past: Author ...
In discussion with the award-winning author of Young Skins.
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Urban Waite – author of the critically acclaimed thrillers The Terror of Living and The Carrion Birds – talks about his latest novel, Sometimes the Wolf. Continue Reading ...
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 ...
I am lethal with money. In 2003, fifteen grand in debt, I decided to give up my job and write a novel. Also, now I have a bit of money ...
If I found myself in a Fahrenheit 451 world, I would be the fool running around grabbing as many books as I could until my arms were full and I ...
The first book I ever loved was The Rocket Ship Saboteurs by John Townsend. It’s not a great book – I’ve tracked it down since – but it was my ...
Jerusalem. It’s a city I lived in from 1994-2009, the bulk of my adult life. It was really the first place I chose to be home, rather than having that ...
was saving the earnings from my paper round to buy hardback volumes of The Lord of the Rings. They’d changed the jackets by the ...
If I’m honest, the characters I most readily relate to are the ones who worry too much, or are ill-equipped to deal with the subtleties of human interaction. The first ...
More like Z-list celebrity. My most memorable encounter is meeting a reader in Germany who went on to become, like, an online stalker, sending me loads of emails. I was ...
I read about red-haired, freckled Anne soon after my family and I immigrated to the US. Although Anne was very different from me in many ways, I ...
Who could fail to fall in love with Holly Golightly? (Not the obtainable Holly from the movie, but Truman Capote’s unobtainable Holly.) And I fall in love with just about ...
I should say Manchester , because that’s where I’m from. But I must betray my roots and ostracise myself forever more and ...
