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For Entertainment Purposes: An Interview With Sheila Heti

Emily Berry speaks to the Canadian author about her latest novel, How Should A Person Be?, criticism and praise for her work and the role of shame in her writing

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Reality Check: An Encomium For The “Dying” Novel

Having heard, a thousand times or more, that the novel is a dead or dying art Thomas Brewster considers just how true that war cry is and where contemporary fiction might or must go from here

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David R. Morgan: Addicted To Plagiarism

Bobby Parker speaks to David Morgan - perhaps the most prolific poetry plagiarist of all time - about his work (and "his work"), looking to understand but left feeling a little like the hapless Clarice Starling

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24 Hour Clinic: The Art Of The Poetry Anthology

Kit Caless gets to grips with Clinic III, the latest anthology from the South London poetry platform, and speaks to its editors about their selection process and the state of contemporary poetry

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Myth Congeniality: John Gray Interviewed

Nick Talbot (aka Gravenhurst) talks to contemporary thinker and Quietus hero John Gray about The Silence Of Animals, Straw Dogs and the failures of humanism

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Love & Marbles: Gilbert Hernandez Interviewed

DJ and comics artist Sina Sparrow talks to Gilbert Hernandez about comics, sexuality, and his new book Marble Season

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State Of The Union: An Interview With Irvine Welsh

The Trainspotting author talks Filth, Porno, post-UK politics, and how he should have cut Margaret Thatcher in on his royalties in an interview at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival

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B.S. Johnson & The Amniotic Fluid Of Words

In a second piece to mark the 80th anniversary of the celebrated author's birth - and fortieth of his death - Daniel Fraser considers the relationship between writer and reader and the tyranny of reason in Johnson's work

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All That Is: James Salter And The Big Time

Stuart Evers considers, and discusses with the much underrated American author, the apparent succeses and failings of his latest novel, All That Is, and why, only now, he has made it to the mainstream

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Where in the World is Quorum? On The Poetry Of William Fuller

Maya Osborne examines the contrasting roles of the pastoral and contributions of Microsoft Word in the American poet's newest collection

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Faintly Transcendental: On The Poetry Of Graham Foust

Scrutinising the influences, from time and place to Joy Division, and stylistic idiosyncrasies which together make up the work of this ambitious American poet, Alex Niven provides a guide for the Foust-uninitiated

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Cruel Britannia: Ian Cobain Interviewed

Nathalie Olah speaks to the author about his new book - Cruel Britannia - political secrecy, prison camps in London and Guantanamo and the inevitable hostile reaction to investigative journalism

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Adam Thirlwell On The Great Gatsby

In our final short visit to West Egg before the release of Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, Adam Thrilwell, author of Kapow! and Granta Best Young British Novelist, discusses the power of glamour in Fitzgerald's novel

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Superflous Fetishisation: Ned Beauman On The Great Gatsby

In the first of a short series of vignettes commissioned to mark the release of Baz Lurhman's The Great Gatsby, Ned Beauman - author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted The Teleportation Accident - recalls a curious summer spent in New York doing 'Gatsby stuff'

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Away From Prying Eyes: Dan Richards’ Holloway

In a specially commissioned piece to celebrate the book's release, accompanied by Donwood's artwork, Dan Richards recalls his first meeting with Robert Macfarlane and the journey that would eventually become Holloway

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Aiming For Epic: Anne Carson’s Red Doc> Reviewed

Erin Lyndal Martin weighs up the pros and cons of recasting the epic in this latest work from Canadian poet Anne Carson, follow-up to her acclaimed Autobiography of Red

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Restraint, Dear Boy: Emily Berry Interviewed By Sam Riviere

Fellow Faber poet Sam Riviere speaks with Emily Berry about her much-anticipated and highly-lauded debut collection, Dear Boy, the difficulties of political poetry and the idea of submission

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Behold! May’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

Aug Stone and Reggie Chamberlain-King are back with their favourite comics of the past few months

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Private Voyeuristic Pleasures: The Letters And Life Of Kurt Vonnegut

On publication of a new book of the author's letters, Carol Huston looks at the many lives of Kurt Vonnegut

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Making Idiots Of Us All: Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle (1963) Revistied

Fifty years after its initial publication Eli Lee examines the themes - among them religion, violence and morality - that categorise Vonnegut's fourth novel and continue to frame our contemporary discourse

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Karl Ove Knausgaard: Between Meaning and Nothingness

Daniel Fraser gets to grips with the banal, the bleak and the beautiful in the second instalment of the Norwegian writer's intense literary memoir

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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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A Spy In The House Of Rumour: Jake Arnott Interviewed

In an in-depth interview with Kiran Sande author Jake Arnott discusses his most recent novel, The House of Rumour, the merits of literary infidelity and the sartorial choices of the cosmonauts

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All My Friends: On Lars Iyer’s Trilogy

Tim Smyth examines Lars Iyer's trilogy - from Spurious, through Dogma to the recently published Exodus - and explores his own relationships with the novels

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BROKEN SPINES: A Quietus Book Column

Karl Smith and Huw Nesbitt share pontifications and ruminations on some of the last month's most interesting literary offerings from across the board

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Beijing Gallows: The Hanging Man Reviewed

Barnaby Martin’s show-stopping dispatch reveals more to Kiran Acharya than any document to date on Ai Weiwei’s place in China and the international art world and a rare glimpse in to the present and future of a secretive state

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Hitchcock Be Damned: Give Me Everything You Have Reviewed

Cay McDermott gets under the skin of James Lasdun's Hitchockian thriller - a visceral, deeply unsettling autobiographical study of stalking in the technological age, at once all-too-real and a masterwork of suspense

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I Came, I Saw, I Rolled My Suitcase: A Land Observations Essay

Land Observations comes to the Kingsland Road on Friday for a set at Drill:London. Here, writer Roads Martin Holman muses on the roads that the Romans built in Florence in an essay to be read as you listen to the Land Observations LP

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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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Deviated Spectrum: Mick Farren Interviewed

Ben Graham speaks in-depth to the enormously prolific musician, journalist, novelist and sometime-mistaken-medium about his immense body of work, spanning four and a half decades and close to the entire culture spectrum

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The Banality Of The Beast: Lee Rourke’s Varroa Destructor

Kit Caless gets under the skin of Lee Rourke's inaugural poetry collection and his beautification of boredom

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Brave New Worlds: A Michael Moorcock Retrospective

With the collected memories and musings of Michael Butterworth, China Miéville and Moorcock himself Carol Huston delves in to the history of one of modern fiction's most influential trailblazers

For Entertainment Purposes: An Interview With Sheila Heti

Reality Check: An Encomium For The “Dying” Novel

David R. Morgan: Addicted To Plagiarism

24 Hour Clinic: The Art Of The Poetry Anthology

Myth Congeniality: John Gray Interviewed

Love & Marbles: Gilbert Hernandez Interviewed

State Of The Union: An Interview With Irvine Welsh

B.S. Johnson & The Amniotic Fluid Of Words

All That Is: James Salter And The Big Time

Where in the World is Quorum? On The Poetry Of William Fuller

Faintly Transcendental: On The Poetry Of Graham Foust

Cruel Britannia: Ian Cobain Interviewed

Adam Thirlwell On The Great Gatsby

Superflous Fetishisation: Ned Beauman On The Great Gatsby

Away From Prying Eyes: Dan Richards’ Holloway

Aiming For Epic: Anne Carson’s Red Doc> Reviewed

Restraint, Dear Boy: Emily Berry Interviewed By Sam Riviere

Behold! May’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

Private Voyeuristic Pleasures: The Letters And Life Of Kurt Vonnegut

Making Idiots Of Us All: Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle (1963) Revistied

Karl Ove Knausgaard: Between Meaning and Nothingness

Nothing New For Trash Like You: On Harmony Korine’s Debut Novel

A Spy In The House Of Rumour: Jake Arnott Interviewed

All My Friends: On Lars Iyer’s Trilogy

BROKEN SPINES: A Quietus Book Column

Beijing Gallows: The Hanging Man Reviewed

Hitchcock Be Damned: Give Me Everything You Have Reviewed

I Came, I Saw, I Rolled My Suitcase: A Land Observations Essay

Uncorrected Proof: Taipei By Tao Lin Reviewed

Deviated Spectrum: Mick Farren Interviewed

The Banality Of The Beast: Lee Rourke’s Varroa Destructor

Brave New Worlds: A Michael Moorcock Retrospective

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