Sheila Heti: “When someone you love dies, you become close to the world of the dead”
The Canadian author on grief, nature, fiction and why criticism may be the purpose of life.
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Keith Brymer Jones: “My dad couldn’t handle emotion. I’ll cry over a pot, for God’s sake”
The Great Pottery Throw Down judge reflects on the magic of clay, therapy and the difference between a ceramicist and…
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Timmy Mallett is still serious about being wacky
Thirty years after his final Wacaday episode, the most distinctive children’s presenter of the 1980s keeps his mallet in hand.
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Colm Tóibín: “I think, ‘I must be deep.’ Then I think, ‘Stop this nonsense, get on with the story’”
The Irish novelist on writing after chemotherapy, growing up gay “in the 19th century”, and winning the 2021 David Cohen…
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Pianist Stephen Hough: “My teenage years were difficult”
The musician, composer, painter and author on his gradual ascent to renown.
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George Saunders: “We’re in this intimate tennis game, the reader and the writer”
The Booker Prize-winning novelist on the Russian masters, the shortcuts to great work, and his new creative writing Substack.
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Can the new Gawker make the internet better?
Editor-in-chief of the relaunched Gawker, Leah Finnegan, talks about media cravenness, the problem with Twitter and how to make a…
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Bobby Gillespie: “The drugs were an integral part of the persona”
The Primal Scream frontman on his working-class upbringing, his first acid trip, and feeling “God-like” in the Nineties.
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