This week, we examine the highs and very many lows of the writing life. Tom Seymour Evans explores a disquieting biography of crime writer James Ellroy, and Stephen Marche shines a light into the abyss of literary failure in his new book.
‘Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy’ by Steven Powell
‘On Writing and Failure’ by Stephen Marche
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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Matthew Arnold's good-bad poetry
Valeria Luiselli on the US immigration crisis
Heavy with odours
Authors of injustice
Good, bad and loud feminist writing
Free Speech vs Safe Space: the Great Campus Divide
Samuel Beckett's turtle-neck, etc
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Peter Brook at work
The world's most mysterious manuscript
Pop science and Punjabi epics
Peak bullshit
India's broken legacy
Ian Nairn, route master
Trump and the great car crisis
Jane Austen at 200
'Let me be clear...'
Robert Frost's aggression
'Who shall we kill today?'
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