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Personal blog of writer and academic Jonathan Gibbs
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Monthly Archives: January, 2014

  • Starting a novel… Iris Murdoch on those heady first few moments January 20, 2014
  • A new #twitterfiction story: Train Day-Dreams @Wednesday3til5 January 15, 2014
  • What is a ‘chapter’ anyway? Reading Natsume Sōseki’s Kokoro – now with answers January 9, 2014
  • A year in reading: 2013 January 6, 2014
  • December reading: Mann, Arendt, Bataille, Chandler, and Ken Worpole and Jason Orton January 4, 2014

RECENT POSTS

  • Books of the year 2021
  • Notes on creative writing: crowd-sourcing a Non-Fiction reading list
  • Instead of June reading 2021: the fragmentary vs the one-paragraph text – Riviere, Hazzard, Offill, Lockwood, Ellmann, Markson, Énard etc etc
  • ‘A Prolonged Kiss’ shortlisted for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2021
  • How should one read a short story collection? On ‘Intimacies’ by Lucy Caldwell

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  • Rare photo of me in a tie, back row, immediately to the left of the Throne of Power. twitter.com/citywriting/st… 9 hours ago
  • RT @niewview: The word on the street is that Clare picked my story 'Literary Quartet' as part of her dream short story anthology ! My secon… 10 hours ago
  • Wordle 212 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Well, I mean, it’s all maths really, isn’t it? 16 hours ago
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