Georges Perec

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Stuff, it’s just stuff, but revealing stuff. Photograph: iStock
Can a list of someone’s stuff double as literature?
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  • July 19, 2018, 06:30

For three years, the French writer Thomas Clerc cloistered himself in his 50sq m Parisian apartment, compiling an annotation of his possessions, inclu(...)

Jean Echenoz: meticulous and precise
1914 by Jean Echenoz review: epic telling of the horrors of the Great War

Friday, July 1st, is the centenary of the opening offensive of the Battle of the Somme, one of the most harrowing events in human history. The German (...)

Harper Lee will publish her second novel, ‘Go Set a Watchman’, 60 years after the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. Photograph: Getty
Apprehension as Harper Lee looks to follow up on perfection

There is something alluring about perfection; it is so rare that most people would understand the feeling of wanting to keep it that way. An initial r(...)

Anakana Schofield: Every book I read seems to change the way I think about fiction. Sometimes they drive me to despair by indicating how much more we need to demand from our fiction and other times they send me into orbit with the possibilities they reveal
Brought to Book: Anakana Schofield on parallel reading, the literary patriarchy and books as portals
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  • May 19, 2014, 01:00

Anakana Schofield is the author of the award-winng debut novel, Malarky, which is out now in paperback, a funny and moving tale of sexual shenaniga(...)

Nicholson Baker: writes fiction based not on story but on his world view. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images
The art of writing about everything and nothing

Paul Chowder gets by. He is a poet who has lost interest in writing poems and would rather spend his days making music. About to turn 55, he se(...)