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The Tear Bottle by Annemarie Jutel

This post is the very first in a series of interviews I'm planning with talented storytellers about the creative process and also about how they bring their works to light. I've known Annemarie Jutel for a long time and so am pretty familiar with her incredible energy and varied accomplishments. She is a critical diagnosis scholar and Tumuaki ō te Kura...

Une Fille Charmante

I was scouring the bookshop the other day with the intention of buying something by a female author. It was International Women’s Day, you...

Senhor Jose

“You know the book I’m reading?” I asked. “Yes,” John said. “Guess what happens to the woman the clerk is looking for.” “Something bad,” he sighs. “Yes. What?” “She...

In Praise of P.G.

“You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour. Like Jeeves, Wodehouse stands alone, and analysis is useless.”  Stephen...

The Brains Behind the Books

Being in New York City, I couldn’t miss the exhibition called “Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón Cajal”.  So after Saturday’s Women’s March...