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Rose McLaren is an artist in London.



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Talk Into My Bullet Hole

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July 2015

Rose McLaren

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July 2015

‘Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?’ ‘Oh, I don’t...

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May 2014

Art Does Not Know a Beyond: On Karl Ove Knausgaard

Rose McLaren

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May 2014

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has an oddly medieval form: a cycle, composed of six auto-biographical books about the...

‘TO BECOME A WRITER, I had to learn to interrupt, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then louder, and then to speak in my own voice which is not loud at all,’ writes Deborah Levy, in her 2013 essay Things I Don’t Want To Know, recounting her childhood in South Africa for the first time Her father, a member of the African National Congress (ANC), was jailed when she was 5, and, little by little, she went quiet, losing her voice, only to find it again as a teenager, tentatively taking her first steps as a writer in the greasy spoons of West Finchley   Since 2011, and the publication of the Booker-shortlisted Swimming Home, Deborah Levy’s voice has boomed loud and clear across the dreary plains of literary Britain Those who have seen her speak or read her work can testify that hers is a voice worth hearing – and has been, for years A successful playwright in the early 1980s (Pax, Heresies, The B File), Deborah Levy published her first novel Beautiful Mutants in 1989, the next step in a lifelong engagement with form, ideas, and most of all, language ‘Her prose dazzles like sunlight on water,’ wrote one critic of Swimming Home – an appraisal that, applied to her entire body of work, stands up   With the benefit of hindsight, it is surprising that her most successful novel to date was also the hardest to publish, eight years after her last book of stories, Pillow Talk, came out in 2003 ‘There is no way you can send a fierce, exotic and brutally hothead novel out into the British rain during a recession and expect a deal to be on the table with scones, tea and the Daily Mail,’ Levy has commented The good news is that the recession may be over: after Swimming Home came Black Vodka, a collection of stories shortlisted for this year’s Frank O’Connor Prize, and the aforementioned essay, a response to George Orwell’s ‘Why I Write’ In 2016, Hot Milk, a novel on hypochondria, will be published by Hamish Hamilton, who will also reissue her

Contributor

August 2014

Rose McLaren

Contributor

August 2014

Rose McLaren is an artist in London.

The Prosaic Sublime of Béla Tarr

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Issue No. 6

Rose McLaren

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Issue No. 6

I have to recognise it’s cosmical; the shit is cosmical. It’s not just social, it’s not just ontological, it’s really huge. And that’s why we...
Stalker, Writer or Professor? Geoff Dyer's Zona and Genre

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February 2012

Rose McLaren

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February 2012

‘So what kind of a writer am I, reduced to writing a summary of a film?’ wonders Geoff Dyer half way through Zona. Such...

READ NEXT

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July 2012

Run, Comrades, #YOLO! — Cursory Notes on Radical Hashtag Forms

Huw Lemmey

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July 2012

I’m not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each...

poetry

November 2016

Gentle

Harriet Moore

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November 2016

Forgive me Sister for I have sinned it’s been seconds since my last confession. I sit in the dark...

fiction

July 2012

The Pits

FMJ Botham

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July 2012

Sometimes he would emerge from his bedroom around midday and the sun would be more or less bright, or...

 

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