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Photo Inspirations – Disaster Photo Inspirations – Empty Seat Adapt to Survive Review: Dans Le Noir A Family Affair Photo Inspirations – A New Year
 

Photo Inspirations – Disaster

OMG. What happened? To whom? Why? Photograph taken by Paige Sinkler Paige Sinkler…

Photo Inspirations – Empty Seat

An empty seat. Will someone rush in late, sidling down the row in the dark bumping knees and blocking the view? Or not. Perhaps something urgent came up, and they’re out there dealing with it while the show goes merrily …

Adapt to Survive

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as Holmes and Watson There are several different ways of making an adaptation. You could go down the 1980s Brideshead Revisited route, which is to take the entire text of the book, get Jeremy Irons …

Review: Dans Le Noir

Can eating the dark be more poetical than dining by candlelight? Still arousing people’s curiosity today, Dans le noir (French for in the dark) is a truly unique dining and sensory experience. Food blogger,  Elsa Messi went to see if …

A Family Affair

Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham Families are like boxes of chocolates. They turn up around Christmas, full of joyful truffles and pralines, and then six days and five boxes later you’re furiously sick of them and all that’s left are …

Photo Inspirations – A New Year

All change for the new year!  New things can be exciting, or scary. Often they go from being one to the other. Is there a story in that journey? Photograph taken by Paige Sinkler…

Q&A: Louise Phillips

Q&A: Louise Phillips

20 January 2012

Since my first appearance in Litro, my work has been published in 34Th Parallel and Monkeybicycle, and it is upcoming in Drunken Boat. Being published in Litro was a wonderful experience; it is a fantastic magazine and it is always …

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The Bestsellers of 2011

18 January 2012

Well, it may be 2012 already but many of the recent weekend papers took the opportunity to look back at the bestselling books of 2011. I always find it good fun to try and spot trends and make a note of …

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Review: ‘A Moveable Feast’ by Ernest Hemingway

16 January 2012

'A Moveable Feast' by Ernest Hemingway Hemingway is used as a barometer for a manly or literary class. He is everywhere, his name employed as an easy endorsement. In Spain, Cuba, France and the United States you will stumble on …

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Extract from ‘Casanova’ by Ian Kelly

08 January 2012

Author and actor Ian Kelly reads an extract from his highly acclaimed biography of the infamous lover, Giacomo Casanova: Casanova by Ian Kelly Casanova  [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Or click here. Ian Kelly Ian Kelly is an …

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