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Stuart Jeffries talks to US writer Andrew Sean Greer about his latest novel, The Story of a Marriage
Praised for his 'perfumed, dandified style', Andrew Sean Greer is one of America's finest young writers. He tells Stuart Jeffries about the family secret that inspired his latest novel, The Story of a Marriage
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John Crace's digested read: Crime by Irvine Welsh
The digested read: He starts mumbling - Weedgie nonce, Weedgie nonce
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Henrietta Rose-Innes wins £10,000 Caine prize
July 8: The South African writer won the award for the best short story in English by an African writer with Poison, a haunting vignette of the 'new' South Africa
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Obituary: William Buchan
July 8: Writer faced with a mixed inheritance as John Buchan's son
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Thorpe and Gardam head National Short Story prize shortlist
July 4: Adam Thorpe and Jane Gardam head the shortlist for the National Short Story prize, the world's richest single story award, announced earlier today
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The Wasp Factory: primitivism
John Mullan on Iain Banks's debunking of the 'noble savage' in The Wasp Factory
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Kate Clanchy's workshop
She would like you to write a letter-poem to someone you've lost, in celebration of the ineffable greatness of Leonard Cohen
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Review: Fishing in Utopia by Andrew Brown
Review: Fishing in Utopia by Andrew Brown It turns out Sweden isn't brimming with neo-Nazis, paedophiles and jihadis
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2b or not 2b: David Crystal on why texting is good for language
Despite doom-laden prophecies, texting has not been the disaster for language many feared, argues linguistics professor David Crystal. On the contrary, it improves children's writing and spelling
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Lives and letters: Geoffrey Moorhouse on New Zealand writer Janet Frame
When Geoffrey Moorhouse and his wife invited New Zealand writer Janet Frame to stay, they changed the course of her life. Forty-five years on, her fictional account of that weekend is finally published
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