September 2011
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Anonymous asked: What do you think of this year's Man Booker Prize? Any guesses who will win? Do you think the right decisions have been made so far?
Anonymous asked: What's the difference between literary and commercial fiction?
Anonymous asked: Have you read or watched One Day? What do you think of it?
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Anonymous asked: Do you think creative writing courses are any good and which courses are the best?
Anonymous asked: I've read quite a lot of plays including Shakespeare and Arthur Miller. I would like to know some more obscure playwrights and plays please!
Anonymous asked: Do speculative applications ever work?
Anonymous asked: Which poets do you like?
Anonymous asked: How can I make the most of internships?
Anonymous asked: How can I make sure that I maintain contact with people from my journalism internships?
Anonymous asked: Where can I look for editorial assistant/junior writer jobs besides the obvious e.g Guardian jobs site?
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Confirm/Ignore | Nikesh Shukla →
When my grandpa died last year, I wrote to Facebook to tell them. Which felt like a strange and unnecessary part of the whole grief process. But someone had made a profile for him, and Facebook kept popping his face up on the sidebar suggesting that I say hello, because it had been a while since we’d connected. Which made me feel sick.
Anyway, this short story by Nikesh Shukla is sort of...
On optimism
Tonight I was going to my friend’s engagement party. I was quite excited. So excited, in fact, that I had not just made my hair look uncharacteristically smooth, I’d also purchased some ace new shoes, especially. Fuschia suede. You see what I mean.
So there I was, trotting along in my dress and ace shoes and smooth hair when someone saw fit to pour a lager over me from the gallery...
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“Well, I didn’t go to journalism school either, so I couldn’t say for...”
– Tom Chivers, right on in the Telegraph
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Anonymous asked: Thinking back to your freelance days, if there was a a quiet, affordable place you could go, like the writers room in NYC, would you have used it?
On why you should read Jilly Cooper
I finally finished RIVALS on Monday. It took me nearly a month to read. Why so slow? Because it’s 700 pages long, and also because I haven’t had a lot of reading time, and also because I sometimes felt too embarrassed to whip it out and read it on public transport, which is obviously a crucial place to do reading.
Despite the embarrassment, however, I feel it’s important to...
Anonymous asked: Can you recommend any good playwrights and plays? Thanks!
Jay Parkinson + MD + MPH = a doctor in NYC: I'll... →
jayparkinsonmd:
It’s a damn fine day. After four years of trying to consolidate my medical school loans, I just received in the mail my approval. I graduated from medical school in 2002 with over $270,000 worth of educational loans just from medical school. As of today, I currently owe $204,823.12.
I’ve been…
Wow.
“Godawful, cheap knockoff of Sex and the City, which is godawful in itself.
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– This article continues to be of great interest to the world of people who Google things like ‘love british guys’ and ‘romances about english man and american woman’.
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Jenna, take me back, I'm newly muscular. →
(via oliveryeh)
Anonymous asked: Do you know any really good short story writers?
Anonymous asked: why don't you ever answer questions anymore???