Article Archive for March 2010
by Rebecca Lee
Are you feeling tough? Because what’s coming might seem pretty brutal.
So, you’ve written a book, you’ve researched agents to submit it to, carefully followed their submission guidelines and sent off your precious …
At the corrupt, blood-drenched core of a decent gangster story there has to be a tragedy. Tragedy is in the very nature of the genre, just as power is the life-force of a respected gangster. Manor …
She lowers the dolly carefully into the tin bath. The water is tepid and a lot had been spilled between the two of them getting the tub outside, especially on the final heave onto the …
In the first of a series, NftU arts blogger, Michael Amherst, quizzes Conservative Shadow Culture Minister, Jeremy Hunt, on the Tories policies for the arts.
So, you’re a writer. You have written something you want other people to read. You would like it to become a book, with a cover and pages and on sale in bookshops (physical or virtual). …
By Jacques Testard
Lorin Stein is a senior editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux in New York City. He has edited, amongst other works, The Savage Detectives and 2666 (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in …
An occasional series where writers and creatives in different fields tell us how it feels.
99% perspiration, 1% representation
by Anna Clair
When I was seven years old, I remember being passionately jealous of Jayne Fisher, a child …
Shakespeare’s Globe recently announced its forthcoming production of Henry VIII, the play during which an errant cannon caught fire and eventually razed the original theatre to the ground. Assuming that bad luck can’t strike twice, the …
by Leo Kent
For an artist who paved the way for Abstract Expressionism in America, Armenian born Arshile Gorky should be more of a household name today. Hopefully this will be rectified in some small …
This week I’m looking at two short films. Neither of them is available to watch or download online. Neither of them is available to buy in HMV (although you can order Oscar and Jim through …
I suspect, dear readers, there are one or two of you who are writers too. Am I right? So, I’m thinking, it’s only fair that I offer a bit of an insight on these pages …
