It's All in the Edit - Making Pen Pusher
Pen Pusher Magazine's editor, Anna Goodall, discusses the process of putting a new issue of the literary publication together. It's both an enjoyable and an anxiety inducing process creating a new issue of Pen Pusher Magazine... Initially... More...
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Friday, 16 April, 2010
Publish or Perish - Prioritizing Graphological Tasks for Maximum Demiurgical Efficiency
I really want to write this blog post. I really do. I've been wanting to write it for three weeks now. But there's just too much else to do. And I don't mean visiting with friends or going for... More...
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Wednesday, 31 March, 2010
Publish or Perish - my brief experience with audiobookpodcastering.
Every day, writers are asked why they spend so much time writing and so little time marketing, particularly by people who don't write. Why aren't you twittering every few hours, we're asked. Why aren't you blogging every week... More...
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Wednesday, 3 March, 2010
Tales from a Bookshop - Write to Remember
Anna Goodall was lucky enough to meet two great literary ladies in just one week ... both of whom have put memories of their extraordinary lives on the page. I attended two events last week: historian... More...
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Friday, 19 February, 2010
Publish or Perish - A translation guide for those new to literary magazines' submissions guidelines.
American writer Tommy Wallach has five novels to his name but none, as yet, have made it in to print. In the first of a regular series, he posts about his writing life as he navigates the shark infested waters of agents, publishers and the long journey to the New York Times bestseller list. More...
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Thursday, 11 February, 2010
Sylvia Plath's annotations on The Great Gatsby
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Friday, 5 February, 2010
FiftyFiction - short and sweet!
A character in Matieu Kassovitz's film Le Fabuleux Déstin d'Amélie Poulain encourages his on-screen companion (and, we assume, the audience) to 'change the world one random act of kindness at a time.' This gooey sentiment may bring about an... More...
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Thursday, 4 February, 2010
Tales from a Bookshop: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies
John Carey's talk about William Golding at the Savile Club was the perfect way to end a week spent reading his biography of this elusive and gifted English author, writes Anna Goodall. William Golding was himself a... More...
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Wednesday, 3 February, 2010
Publish Or Perish
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Wednesday, 27 January, 2010
Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art...
Clerkenwell Tales attended a very special event at the Free Word Centre in Farringdon on Monday night: 'Bright Star - an intimate evening of Keats' poetry', which featured one of the stars of the recent Jane Campion... More...
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Wednesday, 30 December, 2009
Tales from a Bookshop
Anna Goodall recommends her current favourite read from Clerkenwell Tales Being surrounded by and talking about books all day I've found myself picking up and reading things I probably wouldn't have tried if left... More...
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Friday, 18 December, 2009
Tales from a Bookshop
New bookseller, Anna Goodall, on her first week at Clerkenwell Tales... Yes, I've finally made it. As an editor, writer and lifelong booklover, I've finally crossed to the other side of the desk and become a bookseller... and... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 2009
Tales from a Bookshop
Does the demise of Borders signal a new Golden Age of Indie Bookselling?In short. No. All last week the bookselling and publishing industry was awash with rumours of the imminent demise of Borders. Friends and customers alike... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Tales from a Bookshop
Clerkenwell Tales opened in Exmouth Market in August this year. Owner Peter Ho will be posting stories, notes and musings from behind the counter of an independent bookshop. Monday mornings are made that much harder... More...
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Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
Guardian First Book Award 2009
The shortlist for the Guardian First Book Award has been announced. The five titles were chosen by a panel of writers and journalists comprising Nadeem Aslam, Tobias Hill, John Gray, Martha Kearney, Katherine Viner, Claire Armistead, and Stuart Broom who... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
The Book of the Film
We're rather loving Mitch Ansara's 'I Can Read Movies' series. The 26 year old designer from Toledo has redesigned the artwork of well known films such as Ghostbusters and the Hudsucker Proxy as vintage 60's paperbacks, complete with faded... More...
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Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
The Library of Unwritten Books
Originally commissioned by the Pump House Gallery, The Library of Unwritten Books is a collection of possible books - imagined stories, personal histories, books that should be written - made real. Short interviews are recorded with people who... More...
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Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
A Self-Portrait in Words: Antony Gormley's One & Other project set to reach beyond the Fourth Plinth
Sculptor Antony Gormley has famously invited the British public to help create a living monument every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth. A lesser known fact is that the backgrounds and inspirations of... More...
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Monday, 5 October, 2009
More News on the McSweeney's App
The McSweeney's iPhone app was created by a British developer called Russell Quinn, and since its launch last Tuesday has shot to No1 on iTunes. Now we really are jealous. More about how the app came about on the 37... More...
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Tuesday, 29 September, 2009
Please will someone make us an app?
McSweeney's has launched its own Apple application, Small Chair. 'a weekly sampler from all branches of the McSweeney's family.' One week you might receive a story from the upcoming Quarterly the next week an interview from the Believer, the next a... More...
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Tuesday, 29 September, 2009
Dreams from My Father, Lolita and One Hundred Years of Solitude - the 25 books that have shaped world literature
To celebrate their 25th Aniversary, Wasifiri Magazine has compiled a list of the 25 books which have most shaped world literature in the last 25 years, chosen by a roll-call of names in international writing. It's a surprising mix... More...
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Monday, 28 September, 2009
Knights of the Round Table for the Knife Gang Generation Gets the Glyndebourne Treatment
Savvy producers often turn good books into films. Richard Yates's macabre novel Revolutionary Road won plaudits last year. The more light-hearted Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, comes out on October 16th 2009. Young people... More...
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Friday, 18 September, 2009
Online poetry workshop with Glyn Maxwell
Award-winning poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell is running an online poetry workshop this week for the Guardian. More...
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Friday, 18 September, 2009
Old Favourites - Richard Ford reads John Cheever
John Cheever's bitter, knife-sharp story Reunion is an exercise in brevity, and as near close to perfect as anything I've ever read. A young boy meets his errant father for lunch in New York and follows him from bar to... More...
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Monday, 14 September, 2009
Six Word Stories
Ernest Hemmingway once bet $10 he could write a complete story in just six words. He proclaimed the result - 'For sale, baby shoes, never worn' - the best story he'd ever written. Can you do better? post your six word stories below, and the best one will win a bundle of books. Here are a few to get you started... More...
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Monday, 7 September, 2009
André Kertész at the Photographer's Gallery
Currently showing at the Photographers' Gallery is On Reading, a delightful exhibition of André Kertész's street portraits of readers. Kertész, often called 'the godfather or photojournalism' was born in Hungary, but lived and worked all over the world, including Argentina,... More...
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Thursday, 27 August, 2009
EU say what?
Thursday's announcement of the winners of the inaugural European Union Prize for Literature went largely unremarked. Hopefully this won't dampen the spirits of the twelve novelists from Austria, Croatia, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Sweden who will be looking forward to the official ceremony at the end of September where they'll receive their €5,000 cheques from Henning Mankell, the Prize's newly-appointed ambassador. More...
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Tuesday, 21 July, 2009
We're back!
Good things sometimes take a little while, and so it's been with the new-look website but I hope you'll agree it's been worth the wait. More...
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Monday, 20 July, 2009
