Issue #25

• Binge-watch the 2020 AWF winter series. 

• Ways of being male. >>Sprigs. 

• How to write a novel in a world that won't stop changing. 

• The Disaster Tourist. >>The Disaster Tourist. 

Literature class. >>Literature Class.

• Soviet space dogs. >>Who says we don't have any books about dogs?  
Who we're reading when we're reading Murakami. 
Female character written by Hemingway — or houseplant? 
Stranger books.
Not I.

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Issue #24

• Watch the 'watch parties' for the 2020 International Booker Prize. >>The short-listed books. 

• Your Surrealist starter kit. 

• Legacy Bottle Opener. 

• Optimism and Despair. 

• How reading informs writing. 

• Shin-Bijutfromsukai.

• Two stories  Kate Zambreno. >>Books by Zambreno. 

• Can a novel be silent?

• Julio. 

• Bonsai!

• Get your fringe on. 

• Writing as an act of distancing.  >>In Our Mad and Furious City. 

• No ISBN. 

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Issue #23

• The Decameron Project.

• Linton Kwesi Johnson has been awarded the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize. 

• The awful force of inanimate things. >>Machines in the Head. 

• Jenny Hval on the books that inspire(d) her. >>Paradise Rot. 

• The poetry vaccine. 

• How Vivian Gornick writes memoir. 

• Poo Bum on TV.  >>The books. 

• At the type archive. 

• Gorey covers the classics. 

• Joan Didion, 1978. 

• "We're not asleep, but we're also not awake." 

• Getting your hands dirty. 

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Issue #22

• "The Flying Nun of 21st cent. Kiwi lit." >>3 a week for 3 months!

• The perfect choice. >>I am the Brother of XX. 

• Putting a cover on The Plague. 

• Sarah Manguso on oceans. >>Odd planets. 

• Who enables writers to write? 

• Resolutely plotless. >>The Rings of Saturn. 

• Even Seamus Heeney made mistakes. 

• At home — on-line!

• Warrior librarians. 

• A 16th century e-reader? 

• Alexei Sayle as Godot. 

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