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Edmund White: a life in writing
'From an early age I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. It should be totally transparent.' Interview by Emma Brockes
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Putting everything into writing
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 -
Birthday plans
Gil Scott-Heron writes about touring with Stevie Wonder to establish Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday in the US -
Few things are more parochial than the Great American NovelBenulek
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Achebe leads authors' fuel subsidy protest
News: Acclaimed author joins 35 other writers from Nigeria supporting revolt against cuts to funding for fuel costs
commenting on JRR Tolkien's Nobel prize chances dashed by 'poor prose'