Category: On Writing
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Practices, Influences, Themes
A discussion of At the Edge of the Solid World on ABC Radio’s The Book Show.
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Can Realism Become Its Opposite?
A response to Dustin Illingworth’s comments on realism and “anti-realism,” with a suggestion that an overworking of the conventions of realism can produce a type of fiction that is realism’s antithesis.
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All Things At the Edge…
A discussion about At the Edge of the Solid World with Anna MacDonald and Alice Grundy.
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The View From Thirty Thousand Feet
A retrospective consideration of my intentions in writing At the Edge of the Solid World.
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Don’t “Show, Don’t Tell”
A rejection of the conventional wisdom that writers should abide by the maxim “show, don’t tell.”
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After the End of Point-of-View
A round-up of some comments by Rachel Cusk and Jonathan Gibbs on problems with perspective in contemporary fiction.