Letter from new Chair: Professor Ray Johnson MBE
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Slightly Foxed Podcast – Margaret Drabble
Article Written:Dame Margaret Drabble joins us at the Slightly Foxed table as we celebrate her life in writing. From taking up her pen in the 1960s as a young mother alone in her kitchen to feeling part of a movement with Nell Dunn, Margaret Forster and Edna O’Brien, to editing The Oxford Companion to English Literature […]
Read Article >>Backlisted Podcast – Riceyman Steps
Article Written:Backlisted Podcast featuring Riceyman Steps – https://www.backlisted.fm/ Congratulations on winning the Podcast of the Year Award 2019
Read Article >>“Growing Up With Clayhanger”
Article Written:I have a short personal essay called “Growing Up with Clayhanger” in this beautiful new book published by the Letter Press Project Jonathan Taylor http://letterpressproject.co.uk/the-resource-archive/2019-10-31/the-dream-i-held-in-my-hands?
Read Article >>Colin Fisher’s Blog 16 April 2019
Article Written:Colin Fisher’s Blog April 16, 2019 Enthralling – not interminable For over two years I used Arnold Bennett’s self-help book Literary Taste to find out if, a century after the book’s publication, it was possible to create my own literary taste. To carry on the experiment, I will now read the books reviewed by Arnold […]
Read Article >>Digital Addiction Getting You Down? Try an Analog Cure.
Article Written:Digital Addiction Getting You Down? Try an Analog Cure By Cal Newport. New York Times April 8, 2019 . . . Mr. Bennett is not a name that typically comes to mind when seeking advice about our current high-tech moment. But he should be. In 1905, Mr. Bennett stepped away from his traditional genres to produce […]
Read Article >>Reprint of Clayhanger
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Read Article >>From the Vaults, but worth reading again
Article Written:The Age of Uncertainty – On Google searches, the name ‘Arnold Bennett’ frequently appeared, but each time I dismissed him without a moment’s consideration. The very idea! But why was I so prejudiced against a novelist who had once been called “the English Zola”? I couldn’t quite remember. Mrs Woolf and Mr Bennett
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