Manchester Literature Festival 2014: Emma Jane Unsworth at Canongate Lates

No one chronicles a Manuncian night out like her, says Helen Pidd (who also enjoyed Zoe Pilger, Anneliese Mackintosh and Karima Francis at the book fest)I loved Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth so much that I read it twice in a week.Picking it up for the first time over the summer, I binged on it, eyes racing like her characters mouths after too many wraps of coke passed under the pub table. If he wasnt forthcoming with boiler repairs, it didnt bode well for cunnilingus. Id had sex in my teens to get out of my body; in my twenties and thirties, so far it was about making me remember again. You could be anything. You could be perfect...He doesnt know yet about your limited geographical knowledge; that you dont read the papers every day; that you sometimes hide instead of answering the door (and the phone). You are yet to drink white wine and turn into a complete fucking lunatic over absolutely nothing. You are yet to, yet to, yet to. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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Jane Garrett, Book Editor With a Prizewinning Touch, Dies at 88

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World Literature Today to Co-host Online “RESISTIR Latin America” Poetry Event

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World Literature Today to Co-host Online “RESISTIR Latin America” Poetry Event and Call for Peace

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‘I thought it was me alone’: how the Black British book festival has grown

Now in its third year, the event stepped up its ambitions and aims not only to spotlight authors but to change audiencesAs a child, Selina Brown had a Saturday routine: her mother would go shopping and leave her at the library, where she would speed her way through novels by Jacqueline Wilson... Continue reading at The Guardian

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A new $25,000 book prize will recognize the best new literature about the arts.

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Pratchett power: from lost stories to new adaptations, how the late Discworld author lives on

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Sub-Saharan Africa Publishing and Literature Sector Study

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Jon Fosse Wins 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

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