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A Tourist In One’s Own Country: An Interview With Simon Sylvester

Dale Lately speaks to novelist, poet, slam-winning hat-wearer and winner of the Guardian's Not The Booker Prize 2014, Simon Sylvester about nomadic existence, writing from and outside of experience and the history of storytelling

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Puppets Are A Funny Thing: The Miniaturist Reviewed

Houman Barekat examines the minutiae of Jessie Burton's debut novel, The Miniaturist, via sugar, seventeenth-century Dutch society and scale models
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Peer Review: Against Art On Autopilot – Jeff Jackson Interviewed

Speaking to Eric Obenauf, his publisher and editor at Two Dollar Radio, Jeff Jackson discusses conservativeness and convention in fiction-writing, pop-culture consumption and his LA Times Book Prize-finalist novel Mira Corpora
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Lost In Translations, In The Library Of Babel

As translation-focused publishers move out from the fringes and closer to the forefront of the industry (and our bookcases), Thomas Brewster considers the implications of our Anglo-Saxon obsession and the twisting of language
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Bobby Parker Loses The Plot: Review By Fire

Upon finding the sole surviving manuscript of his first and only novel, poet Bobby Parker undertakes a ritual exorcism of his demons
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Nothing New For Trash Like You: On Harmony Korine’s Debut Novel

While mimicry is often the sincerest form of flattery, Declan Tan examines the ins and outs of Harmony Korine's 'Great American Choose Your Own Adventure novel' by way of emulation

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Uncorrected Proof: Taipei By Tao Lin Reviewed

Declan Tan finds himself caught in the whirlwind of this latest offering from, perhaps, one of the most unique literary voices of a generation

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The Curious Case Of Colonel Sun: Kingsley Amis’s Missing Bond Novel

Aug Stone revisits the only James Bond novel to remain out of physical print, discussing its place within the mythology of 007 and Amis's sizeable contribution to the franchise

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