Month: June 2021
Very Different Writers, Uncanny Commonalities: On Lee Child and Heidi James Biographer Heather Martin Takes the Measure of Two Literary Lives By Heather Martin June 28, 2021
Why do writers need agents? To keep track of the rejections ‘Writers need agents more than agents need writers.’ That 10% fee buys a novelist like me more than the chance of a big book deal – from a hand with the DIY to a shoulder to cry on after yet another knockback Chris Paling
REDISCOVERING EVE ADAMS, THE RADICAL LESBIAN ACTIVIST How Jonathan Ned Katz retraced the story of the woman who wrote what might be the first ethnography of American lesbian life. By Jim Downs {LGT: Sad Tale}
Top 10s 10 of Britain’s best indie bookshops Customers browse the books at Word On The Water, Regent’s Canal, London. We mark Independent Bookshop Week with an expert’s pick of 10 stores embedded in local life, from Edinburgh to Brixton Louise Boland
LGT Photography — Country House
Interesting! I think a lot of people can be like this. I for one still regard myself as shy, which isn’t true. 😆 “You Still Believe Outdated Stories About Yourself, and It’s Holding You Back.” by Stark Raving
Imperial Delusions | by Fara Dabhoiwala | The New York Review of Books
Imperial Delusions
Fara Dabhoiwala
From the late eighteenth century onward, the British justified their empire with a continually updated ideology of moral purpose and historical necessity.
July 1, 2021 issue
— Read on www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/07/01/imperial-delusions/
(The seemingly universal human complaint regarding the shortness of life:) we are born, our existences rush swiftly by, and before we know it, we die. – Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, in his brilliant 49 AD essay On the Shortness of Life. {appeared in Philosophy Break}

The Writers’ Writer’s Writing | James Ley on Lydia Davis’ Essays {lgt41: Recently I became aware of Lydia Davis’ short short stories. Her essays about her writing, with references to several authors’ works, seem interesting, judging at least from this review by James Ley. However, I will first start with her stories.}
Her essays are valuable insights into the distinctive sensibility that produced all those remarkable stories that, like good poems, seem to resist paraphrase.
— Read on sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/lydia-davis-essays/
