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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

  • Occasional review, of sorts: Dance Move, by Wendy Erskine
  • 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

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  • Annie Dillard on Solutrean blades that thins “imperceptibly, at an atom”, reminds me of the “small spear” in Flann… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 6 hours ago
  • Pizza in the park. A short story by @seventydys published by @tony_white_’s #pieceofpaperpress. “Yep. It’s good… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 8 hours ago
  • RT @David_Cameron: Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice - stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband: http… 12 hours ago
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