Tomorrow, upon Awakening
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Bill Morgan | Interview
Bill Morgan
‘We’ve fallen out of the habit of writing out our lives for one another, and instead we just pick up the phone.’
Kerouac/Ginsberg: The Letters
Allen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac
‘Your isolation like mine is sad and frightful mainly the blind alleys of money and love but life is not over, and much to be written.’
Two Poems
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
‘It was a cruelty I first tried to blame on nature, / Then on growing up, on falling off, on it being / Just an old myth.’
Philippe Claudel | Interview
Philippe Claudel & Emily Greenhouse
‘The modern novel can’t sidestep or ignore the idea of evil on an industrial level’
First Story
William Fiennes
‘We talked a lot about voice – the idea that everyone has a voice, their own voice, and this is something to be valued and celebrated.’
What I’m Listening To: David Bowie
Wesley Stace
Wesley Stace on listening to every live recording of David Bowie. ‘He was always a step ahead.’
I & I: The Natural Mystics
Colin Grant
‘Such a spectacle could not have been envisaged ten years previously at the time of Bob Marley’s death from cancer.’
From our archive: Medtner
Philip Pullman
Our Music Season continues with writing from our archive by Philip Pullman. In this piece,...
What I’m Listening To
Adam Mars-Jones
‘Obscure repertoire is a sensible hiding-place for mediocre technique.’
The Pretty Women of Paris
Anonymous
‘For the last fifteen years she has been richly kept by a Russian prince, who revels in her brutality, viciousness, extravagance and love of brandy.’
Lunch with the Surgeon
Kapka Kassabova
‘Last month, a plastic surgeon in Buenos Aires tried to seduce me.’
The Unwriteable
Mark Doty
‘When I was seventeen, a freshman in college living in my parents’ house, I met Ruth at a poetry reading.’
Tokyo Island
Natsuo Kirino
‘The lottery to choose her next husband was to take place at the Imperial Palace.’
Rousseau and the Pussycat
Marie Darrieussecq
‘I am aware that according to present-day criteria, the story I am about to tell contains several shocking scenes which fall within the realms of sexual harassment and cruelty towards animals.’
The Fig Tree and the Wasp
Brian Chikwava
‘The day I first saw the dance was the day we had expected to end with the execution of my maternal grandfather.’
Zeppelin
Herta Müller
‘This Zeppelin may not float high and silver in the sky, but it does set your mind adrift.’
Bianca Burning
C.K. Williams
‘The sexual terror lions are roaring into my ears as I make my way between their cages’
Four Mammals Contemplating Sex
Dave Eggers
Image 1 of 4 Bespectacled Bear, 12 January 2010, 4.51 p.m. Image 2 of 4...
Roseland
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
‘I’m twenty-one. On a Greyhound bus going from New York to San Francisco.’
This is for You
Emmanuel Carrère
‘I have a proposition for you. From this moment on, you will do everything I tell you to do.’
Park Life
Rupert Thomson
‘As the weeks went by, I began to realize that the park had its own unofficial and carefully calibrated infrastructure.’
The Agony of Intimacy
Jeanette Winterson
‘We all knew that about the gods – that they were total sex.’
Translating Sex
Natasha Wimmer & Ollie Brock
‘I won’t say that the mood of a scene doesn’t affect me, but I’m not the translating equivalent of a Method actor.’
Alive, Alive-Oh!
Diana Athill
‘She thought of herself as a rational woman, but while she could sleep alone in an empty house for night after night without worrying, there were other nights when her nerves twitched like a rabbit's at the least sound.’
Eight Pieces for the Left Hand
J. Robert Lennon
‘Autumn, once the most popular season in this town of tall trees, is now regarded with dread, thanks to the bitter athletic rivalry between our two local high schools.’
The Lives of Brian
Brian Cathcart
’ My name is Brian Cathcart. I grew up mainly in Northern Ireland. My father was headmaster of a secondary school and my mother taught English. I come from Protestant stock, though I have no religion myself. I studied history at university. I remember the Troubles starting, the war in Biafra, the Beatles.’
