More in My week
Ellen Feldman, a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank and Scottsboro, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Next to Love is her latest novel. She lives in New York City with her husband. More...
Monday, 5 December, 2011
Craig Taylor is the author of Return to Akenfield and One Million Tiny Plays about Britain, which began life as a column in the Guardian. He is also editor of the literary magazine Five Dials. His latest book, Londoners is subtitled The Days and Nights of London Now - As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long for It. He tells us how he fills his time in and out of London in a not entirely typical week. More...
Monday, 7 November, 2011
Andrey Kurkov was born in St Petersburg. After completing his military service as a prison warder in Odessa he became a film cameraman, writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed novels, including Death and the Penguin. The week before his UK book tour included a tête-à-tête with a prime minister and a surprising phone call. More...
Tuesday, 4 October, 2011
"Amy Waldman is the national correspondent at The Atlantic. An expert on the Muslim world and the many faces of the War on Terror, Waldman recently launched her debut novel, The Submission, and is still trying to figure out how her 80-page scrap turned into a 300-page book." More...
Monday, 5 September, 2011
Telling it like it is, from London to Lahore, the heroine of Moni Mohsin's latest novel, Tender Hooks, gives us an exclusive insight into her glamorous existence. More...
Thursday, 4 August, 2011
"Original, brilliant, inconceivable," is how Ali Smith described The Echo Chamber, the debut novel from Luke Williams, who studied creative writing under W.G. Sebald at the University of East Anglia. He describes another week pounding at the keyboard. More...
Tuesday, 5 July, 2011
Sam Leith, former Literary Editor of the Telegraph, writes of a week of two births: his first novel and his second child. More...
Thursday, 21 April, 2011
Dan Rhodes is the winner of many awards including the Author's Club First Novel Award and the E.M. Forster Award. In 2003 he was named by Granta magazine as one of their Twenty Best of Young British Novelists. He spent a week in limbo with his publisher, seething over the future of libraries, fretting over bills, and reading for the simple pleasure of it. More...
Thursday, 24 March, 2011
Journalist and film-maker, Reggie Nadelson spent a chilly week in her home town, New York, toying with neighbourhood names, enjoying the idea of being Swedish and burrowing under mink. More...
Thursday, 24 February, 2011
Award-winning journalist (Sunday Times, Elle, Mail on Sunday, Observer) Elizabeth Day's first novel is published this month. She recalls a week from the Christmas break in which an entire day passes in a blur thanks to a bowl of soup.
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Thursday, 20 January, 2011
Dinaw Mengestu, one of the New Yorker's "20 Under 40" writers to watch, won the 2007 Guardian First Book Prize for his debut novel, Children of the Revolution. Here he shares with us his last week in New York City, a week of drinking so it's hard to blink, enjoying the secrecy of New York's hidden spaces, and packing up and saying goodbye... More...
Monday, 20 December, 2010
Fannie Flagg, acclaimed author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, logs the first week of her American tour promoting her new novel. It was a week brimming with southern charm and grits and fried chicken - and the occasional slice of pie... More...
Thursday, 25 November, 2010
Gary Shteyngart, author of the brilliant Super Sad True Love Story and recently named as one of the New Yorker's Twenty Under Forty, vanquishes his hangover, crashes East Egg and remembers that beautiful first kiss. More...
Thursday, 23 September, 2010
The author of Union Atlantic laments the corruption of our youth, ponders the rise of crystal meth and gives in to Twilight. More...
Thursday, 5 August, 2010
Shane Jones meets Garrison Keillor, watches some TV and heads back to the office. More...
Thursday, 24 June, 2010
This Party's Got to Stop is Rupert Thomson's first venture into non-fiction, recalling the unsettling, anarchic months he shared a house with his brothers following the death of their father. Here he recalls a week in Barcelona. More...
Friday, 7 May, 2010
A night in the life of poet and novelist Marylin Chin; cheap prosecco, breakdancing and nocturnal Chinese brush painting. More...
Tuesday, 30 March, 2010
Samantha Havery's debut The Wilderness was winner of the Betty Trask Prize and shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. She spends a week pondering her critics, celebrating her champions, and writing her next book while revisiting the last. More...
Thursday, 25 February, 2010
Paul Murray, author of Skippy Dies, spends a week perfecting the art of Christmas shopping, battling with the cat and self-medicating with Toblerone. More...
Wednesday, 27 January, 2010
Science writer Marcus Chown speaks up for reform of the libel laws, does coco crispie calculations and is outmaneuvered by the postman. More...
Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
New Zealand-born writer Charlotte Grimshaw tours her new book, stalks the Prime Minister and reclaims 'Infidelity'. More...
Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black and the forthcoming memoir Howard's End is on the Landing, loses her dogs, predicts the demise of high street bookselling, and declares global warming a scam. More...
Monday, 12 October, 2009
Ed Hollis spends a week shepherding 45 students around Edinburgh, catching up with an old friend in a gay sex dungeon, and attending High Mass on Sunday. More...
Monday, 7 September, 2009
Ali Sethi grew up in Pakistan in a family of dissenting journalists and publishers. He recently graduated from Harvard graduate, where he studied under Zadie Smith and Amitav Ghosh. The Wish Maker is his first novel. More...
Monday, 13 July, 2009
Wells Tower's stories have appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeney's and Harper's, and he was awarded the Plimpton Discovery Prize from the Paris Review. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned is his first book. More...
Tuesday, 7 April, 2009
Con Coughlin is a journalist and commentator specialising in the Middle East and international terrorism. He is defence and security editor of The Daily Telegraph and writes for the Spectator and other periodicals. His new book, Khomeini's Ghost, follows Saddam: The Secret Life, a biography of the fallen dictator. More...
Tuesday, 10 March, 2009
Dirk Wittenborn, author of Fierce People, Zoe and Pharmakon, is disappointed by the Super Bowl, out-written by a seven year old and wildly optimistic about the British Weather. More...
Monday, 9 February, 2009
Kathleen Kent's first novel has its roots in her own family history. The Heretic's Daughter follows the story of Martha Carrier, one of the women hanged in the Salem witch trials, whom Kent discovered she was realated to through her mother. A research trip for her second book brings her to Wales, where she gains first hand experience of two great British institutions; the weather and the rail network. Why take one train when you can take four? More...
Tuesday, 13 January, 2009
Thirty years ago Daniel Everett and his young family journeyed to South America as missionaries, hoping to convert the Piraha tribe of the Amazon basin. In the intervening years Everett came to reject his faith, lose his family and challenge many of the basic assumptions that Western academics hold dear regarding language, culture and cognition. He tells us about a nerve racking week lecturing to British academics, joy at Obama's election and trying to keep things in perspective. More...
Monday, 8 December, 2008
Mark Crick, author of Sartre's Sink, teaches DIY at the School of Life, and cuts a sartorial dash at the House of Lords.
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Thursday, 6 November, 2008
Glyn Maxwell, poet and playwright, records the exultation and despair of the week he launched his new play Liberty at the Globe.
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Thursday, 2 October, 2008
Rabih Alameddine, author of The Hakawati, gets nervous on a whirlwind tour of England, Ireland and Scotland, spends evenings filled with wine, poetry and song at Colm Toibin's house and battles endless, endless rain. More...
Friday, 5 September, 2008
Nicholas Hogg, award-winning author of Show Me the Sky, takes a holiday from writing to brave the cows at camp bestival, run the papparazzi gauntlet out in Soho (blame Rhys Ifans) and meet the original Mr Nice.
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Friday, 1 August, 2008
Charles Boyle, poet, publisher, and now award-winning novelist, recounts the week that saw him collect the McKitterick prize for his first novel 24 for 3 and blow his cover as the man behind Jennie Walker. More...
Friday, 4 July, 2008
Mohammed Hanif, another of the 'Hay 21', is the author of A Case Exploding Of Mangoes. He spends a week trying to find a Pakistani publisher willing to publish his book despite its inflammatory nature, being a 'Capote nut' and doing 'manly crafts' with his ten year old son. More...
Friday, 6 June, 2008
Sarah Hall, author of the Electric Michelangelo and The Carhullan Army, writes of a week of manic publicity, work on her new novel and fielding questions about skinny-dipping. More...
Thursday, 24 April, 2008
