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Books / 24/10/2020 UEA Live: Diana Evans on inspiration and observation

Diana Evans, who studied the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 2003, joined Jean McNeil on Wednesday evening to discuss her most recent novel, her experiences as a writer, and the nature of her fiction. Ordinary People (Evans’s most recent novel, published in 2018) came about from the gaps in the books she was reading....

Books / 17/10/2020 UEA Live: celebrating Caribbean women in literature

This week, UEA Live was joined by three prolific Caribbean writers. This event celebrated UEA’s strong ties with Bocas, a writing and literary arts development organisation based in Trinidad & Tobago, and of Caribbean women writers’ contributions to literature. Chaired by Alison Donnell, professor of Modern Literatures at UEA, the online panel introduced Guyanese-born Canadian...

Books / 13/10/2020 What makes a book to film adaptation (un)successful?

The worst day of my life was when I went to see Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. It was not good. The sequel, Sea of Monsters? Even worse. It was an abomination. It took the narrative of 5 books, merged them together, and crafted 106 minutes of pure audio-visual torture (that’s right,...

Books / 13/10/2020 The best bookshops of Norwich

Norwich (a certified UNESCO City of Literature) is full to the brim with bookshops, so if you’re feeling overwhelmed on where to get your literary fix, here’s a handy guide. My personal favourite Norwich bookshop is City Bookshop on Davey Street, as it contains an abundance of bargains. Most of their brand-new classics will only...

Books / 13/10/2020 Do Youtubers deserve a space in the literary world?

In recent years, there has been an influx of books released by YouTube celebrities. These are unique in that we as an audience already have a privileged insight into their day-to-day lives (or a probably highly edited equivalent). So how is it that this newly-cornered marketplace has met so much demand? In 2014 one of...

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Favourites…

Favourite art title Ally Fowler Joseph Beuys’ ‘I Like America and America Likes Me’, is a title imbued with tongue-in-cheek confidence and cynicism. The German artist flew to New York and entered a room containing a coyote for three days. Initially, it tried to attack him, but by the end of the three days, it…

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Andrej Sapkowski and The Witcher

Picture him. A man in heavy, slightly austere, round-rimmed spectacles. He has a thick bushy moustache. A cat rests on his lap. He is sitting at a desk. A blue monitor flickers in front of him. Books litter the rest of the desk. It is dark outside. The year is 1985. The man is Andrej…

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When eroticism comes across as comedic

A couple of days ago, my friends and I were sitting in our living room paying ‘Catan’, and the conversation got onto what we wanted to do after uni. My friend James Ward said that he wanted ideally to be a writer, but that his chosen writerly name, J. R. Ward, had already been taken,…

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Lustful literature: Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a book that is famed for being sexually explicit. It was written by D. H. Lawrence in 1928 but was only published by a small publishing house in Florence. There was an infamous trial held in 1959 where Penguin attempted to publish the text and distribute it nationally, however the novel…

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