The dream is to create a book that will also be a tonic: not a course of study but a course of treatment. “I’m beginning a new book to have a companion,” wrote Hervé Guibert, “someone with whom I can talk, eat, sleep, at whose side I can dream and have nightmares, the only friend […]
Tanya Saracho, Craig Mazin and Pamela Ribon courtesy of Austin Film Festival The Austin Film Festival has announced the first 10 panels for the 2024 Writers Conference, and they include a conversation with Craig Mazin, the creator and showrunner of HBO’s post-apocalyptic zombie series The Last of Us . The Writers Conference takes place over […]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Father’ is one of Raymond Carver’s shortest stories. It is more of a sketch or even, perhaps, a piece of ‘flash fiction’ than a ‘short story’ in the conventional sense; but then one of the things that great writers in the short-story form have always done is make […]
The dream is to create a book that will also be a tonic: not a course of study but a course of treatment. “I’m beginning a new book to have a companion,” wrote Hervé Guibert, “someone with whom I can talk, eat, sleep, at whose side I can dream and have nightmares, the only friend […]
