I applied for a literary residency today and in my application I told the committee that the choice of my good self would have this result: “A win of this residency for a writer like me will be an exciting development in the endorsement of writers who work hard outside of the established ‘system’. It […]
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Presents: The Oscar Wilde Collection
posted by lisathatcher
Presents! Presents! Presents! I found this wonderful site with PDF’s to the Oscar Wilde Collection. All free. Enjoy!
The Black Herald #2: Freedom from the necessity of success – Part One.
posted by lisathatcher
It is the ambitious hopes of editor poets Blandine Longre and Paul Stubbs that The Black Herald only publish works that are: “… vital and original, and above all else, might well incubate itself to the exterior world of publicity – though this is the hope of the editors, not necessarily the writers themselves.” They […]
Poet Paul Stubbs: the primordial cry.
posted by lisathatcher
I’m reading The Black Herald #2 in preparation for a review. I wanted to share this quote by Paul Stubbs in his excellent introduction to the magazine (about which I will wax lyrical later) “… It must at all costs remain the brutal single-mindedness of the writer to endure and locate what Paul Celan described […]
Jane Austen: At the top of the Kindle pile.
posted by lisathatcher
Spare me just a moment to bend my knee and worship at the Jane Austen altar. Trawling around the net today in search of Fodder for my best books of 2011 list (groan I know but you know you want it) and realising in horror I have to read IQ84 books one and two before […]
It’s that which is in plain sight that you can’t see, that is the most interesting.
posted by lisathatcher
I’ve had a bit of a film epiphany this year. I always loved film, but for many and various reasons, only came to discover the very best of film this year – rather late in life. Maybe not late in life, but a long time later than I would have prefered. In 2001 I saw […]
Henry Miller: Don’t be an artist if you can help it.
posted by lisathatcher
When you take on the responsiblity of being a creative person, you can’t walk out on it any more. Youre either going to live or die. The artist doesn’t follow the herd. They lift up their voice. They say this is what I think, this is what I say and this is what I’m doing. […]
Why Chomsky is right about Twitter.
posted by lisathatcher
An Article in Salon today (you can access it here) suggested Noam Chomsky is wrong about Twitter. I wasn’t au fait with Chomsky’s complaints, observations or otherwise about Twitter. Generally I am a Chomsky fan, but he can lean too much away from Continentalism for me to take him at that Guru status, which probably […]
The Revolution will not be Televised – My Experience in Ellen Johnsons-Sirleaf’s Africa.
posted by lisathatcher
The revolution will not be televised. Today, President Johnson-Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.” I used to work for The Hunger Project. I was head of fundraising in Sydney and I […]
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