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52: Episode 26
A story in instalments by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie KaySo I'm sitting here on a cold stone wall above the firth, above the bay, above a row of boats moored and waiting for a...
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52: Episode 27
A story in instalments by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie KayAt sea. There are times I can't bear to think of what's been left behind. It is as though I myself am among the people...
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52: Episode 28
A story in instalments by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie KayI woke up with a sense that everything had gone wrong. I could taste it in my mouth, a metallic taste, the taste of...
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52: Episode 29
A story in instalments by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie KayIt's hard being a donkey. A lot of people don't know that a donkey's coat isn't waterproof. What did she think would...
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52: Episode 30
A story in instalments by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie KayLittle donkey, little donkey, on the dusty road, Bea is singing. She has one arm slung round my shoulders and her other...
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52: Episode 31, the finale
A story in instalments by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie KayHelen speaking: All those wasted years of believing that life had taken me to the (dry) cleaners, and what did I need? I...
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Rereading: The Comforters by Muriel Spark
The Comforters, Muriel Spark's first novel, was a brilliant blast against the realist fashion of its day. It treats madness and evil with the mirthful lightness that would become the hallmark of her...
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Ali Smith on The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
Celebrated for the Moomins, Finnish novelist Tove Jansson also wrote many books for adults. Being able to read one of her best novels in English for the first time is like discovering buried treasureIn...
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Picture this
Who is approaching the tollbooth? What is going through Van Gogh's mind? What is the significance of Bruegel's falling tree? Writers reflect on their favourite works in the Courtauld GalleryAndrew...
View ArticleShort story podcast: Ali Smith reads A Conversation With My Father by Grace...
Ali Smith reads Grace PaleyGrace Paley's short stories are a kind of life-force in themselves. Often in her writing, the very form of the story will up and challenge you with its wit, its energy and...
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Tracey Emin: 'What you see is what I am'
Tracey Emin's raw unpretentiousness – and the use she's made of her life in her work – has captured the nation's attention for 20 years. But its brilliance lies in its use of wordsA cunt is a rose is a...
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Once upon a life: Ali Smith
Looking back on her life, writer Ali Smith returns to the moment of conception to weave a poignant and funny memoir of an irreverent father, a weakness for Greek musicals and a fateful border...
View ArticleGuardian Books podcast: 2011 in fiction
As the year draws to a close, we take a look at some of the fiction that has featured in the books of the year columns. Ali Smith talks about the power of puns and explains the spaces in between the...
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Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye...
Speaking at the Edinburgh World Writers' Conference, Ali Smith argues that it is the duty of both readers and writers to 'be as open as a book, and alive to the life in language'Point 1: "What's it all...
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My hero: Lydia Davis by Ali Smith
As mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert, as epoch-making as Proust – Davis's short stories are a celebration of the fertile mindBig rejoicing: Lydia Davis has won the Man Booker International prize....
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52: Episode 26
A story in instalments by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie KaySo I'm sitting here on a cold stone wall above the firth, above the bay, above a row of boats moored and waiting for a...
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52: Episode 27
A story in instalments by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie KayAt sea. There are times I can't bear to think of what's been left behind. It is as though I myself am among the people...
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52: Episode 28
A story in instalments by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie KayI woke up with a sense that everything had gone wrong. I could taste it in my mouth, a metallic taste, the taste of...
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52: Episode 29
A story in instalments by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie KayIt's hard being a donkey. A lot of people don't know that a donkey's coat isn't waterproof. What did she think would...
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52: Episode 30
A story in instalments by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie KayLittle donkey, little donkey, on the dusty road, Bea is singing. She has one arm slung round my shoulders and her other...
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