Where nothing is but everything is becoming
Karl Ove Knausgård, recently shortlisted for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and Dublin Literary Award, on writing and editing.
A place where a truth is created
Brilliant conversation between Aleksandar Hemon and a Teju Cole in BOMB.
I made a sideways move from art history into writing, and I think this, in part, is why I also find the stern distinction between fiction and nonfiction odd. It’s not at all a natural way of splitting up narrated experience, just as we don’t go around the museum looking for fictional or nonfictional paintings.
Beckett, rejected
Beckett’s ‘difficult, obscure’ story to be published.
A previously unpublished story by Samuel Beckett will go on sale in bookshops for the first time, 80 years after his publisher rejected it as a nightmare read that gave him “the jim-jams”.
Baiten into us
Sinéad Gleeson asked a bunch of writers and artists to nominate a book that defines Ireland, an alternative to Tom Garvin and Bryan Fanning’s list. We picked Aidan Higgins.