Tag: London Times
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Helen Oyeyemi and Female Madness
“Female craziness is something I’m very interested in…how it can manifest itself, what it means, what pressures force someone into these behaviours. I’m pretty much obsessed with madness. –Helen Oyeyemi, The Times Interview I’m always taken when someone writes fiction that explores mental illness, even more so when the writer is a woman, and of…
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Italo Calvino, The Micro Chapter and Writing What Interests You
Calvino was brave because he sat down to write what interested him – not what might interest other people. He had a day job in a publishing house, and he sought neither celebrity nor wealth. He was the extreme other of the creative writing course wannabe. He loved the short fictional form, which was a…
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The Need to Keep Things the Same: Monica Ali and “In The Kitchen”
…Ali has taken the action out of the home and into the high-octane kitchen of the executive chef Gabriel Lightfoot, whose restaurant at the Imperial Hotel gives her a wider, more public space in which to continue her exploration of the modern immigrant experience. In changing her setting, she almost manages to change her tone,…
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The Need to Keep Things the Same: Monica Ali and “In The Kitchen”
…Ali has taken the action out of the home and into the high-octane kitchen of the executive chef Gabriel Lightfoot, whose restaurant at the Imperial Hotel gives her a wider, more public space in which to continue her exploration of the modern immigrant experience. In changing her setting, she almost manages to change her tone,…