TW – Bereavement Grief is a very strange feeling. Familiar yet foreign. Empty but all-consuming. Writers continuously find new ways to translate grief onto the page. Readers, including myself, desperately find comfort in their work. In these few weeks before my grandad’s memorial, I returned to Max Porter’s debut novel, ‘Grief Is the Thing With…
Books
Anticipated Reads of 2021
Millions of books get published every year, so it can be overwhelming to try and sift through new releases and get your hands on the best up-and-coming novels. From Kazuo Ishiguro to Angie Thomas, Cassandra Clare to Jon McGregor, a whole host of beloved authors are releasing new works in 2021, and while I could…
Arts
Upcoming: Max Porter at the 2019 Spring Literary Festival
I remember that Max Porter’s Grief is the Thing with Feathers was the first book that I read when I came to UEA. As a literature student, I am often encouraged to take literary analysis further than what a book makes me feel. But I so vividly remember how Grief made me feel. It is…
Arts
2019 Spring Literary Festival
The 2019 Spring Literary Festival will be hosting some of the most prominent figures in the world of words. From the author of the experimental and profoundly moving Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Max Porter, to Rachel Cusk, the ground-breaking writer of auto-fiction. Singer-songwriter and author Tracey Thorn from the band Everything but the…
Arts
What’s coming up in 2019?
– The Testaments by Margaret Atwood In September 2019, we’ll be returning to the world of Gilead. Set fifteen years after its predecessor The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments is not going to pick up where Offred’s story left off. In fact, we cannot even be sure that Offred will be a character in the sequel…
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