News: July
1. The Circa Words experimental writing weekend we took part in with John Holten (gorse no. 1) over Bloomsday weekend gets a mention in the Irish Times (and moderator Dave Lordan’s report can be read here).
1. The Circa Words experimental writing weekend we took part in with John Holten (gorse no. 1) over Bloomsday weekend gets a mention in the Irish Times (and moderator Dave Lordan’s report can be read here).
Janet Malcolm loves people. This may seem an obvious thing to say about a biographer, especially one as prolific in ‘personality journalism’ as she is – but unlike other purveyors of the genre who concern themselves only with certain people (namely those who find themselves subjects of biographies), Malcolm’s writing is suffused with an intense fascination with the both the individual and the aggregate human conditions.
From the FT:
Stephen Crowe, the man who is illustrating every page of Finnegans Wake (and whose The City we featured in gorse no. 1), has gone and got himself involved in another Joycean project: de Selby Press’ edition of Dubliners.
In Review31, ‘The Essay and the Internet’ by Orit Gat.
Do longread and longform — those two words that developed from a hash tag — equal essay?