Fiction
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The Art of Fielding: baseball, growing up and the great American novel
7 Jan 2012: It took ten years to write, but Chad Harbach's debut is the latest work to capture the insecurities of provincial America
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Get an accountant, abstain from sex and similes, cut, rewrite, then cut and rewrite again – if all else fails, pray. Inspired by Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing, we asked authors for their personal dos and don'ts
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Comment
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5 Jan 2012: Damien Walter: The elusive nature of 'real' love is a perennial question for writers, and fantasy authors provide some refreshing ways to pose it
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30 Dec 2011:
Sarah Crown: A girl's journey from sweltering midwestern plains to the freezing east coast suggests cold can spark an intellectual awakening
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23 Dec 2011: Muriel Gray: The Victorians' finest seasonal legacy is the ghost story. This year, why not revive it and terrify the children?
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23 Dec 2011: You don't need to add zombies or modern gadgets to transform great fiction: just swap the he's and she's
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23 Dec 2011:
As the inevitable rows on prize juries testify, it's not easy to say – but well-informed argument does provide some useful pointers
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9 Jan 2012: AL Kennedy: Complete commitment, down to the last comma, is the only way for me to make writing work. Which isn't good news for everything else in my life
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8 Jan 2012: Samantha Harvey follows up her Booker longlisted debut with an evocative tale of two brothers that resists the easy and the obvious, writes Natasha Tripney
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8 Jan 2012:
The first novel from the author of The Sisters Brothers is a booze-soaked extravaganza set in a Hollywood bar, says Anthony Cummins
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8 Jan 2012:
Tessa Hadley's classy chronicles of contemporary emotions display a subtly subversive talent, says Edmund Gordon
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7 Jan 2012: It took ten years to write, but Chad Harbach's debut is the latest work to capture the insecurities of provincial America
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6 Jan 2012: Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds, In The Mouth of the Whale by Paul McAuley, City of Light and Shadow by Ian Whates and Pilgrims by Will Elliott
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6 Jan 2012: Carol Birch is impressed by Samantha Harvey's subtle investigation
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6 Jan 2012:
Week one: stereotypes
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6 Jan 2012:
Eoin McNamee on a Belfast endgame
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