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Writing

Paula Fox | Writers & Company

by Dan on July 4, 2011

Paula Fox, storied author of Desperate Characters, talks about writing and her memoir Borrowed Finery with Eleanor Wachtel in this archive interview for Writers & Company from 2002:

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The cover above, from Fox’s collection of stories and essays News From the World published earlier this year by W. W. Norton, was designed by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich.

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Jarvis Cocker on Writing

by Dan on June 30, 2011

Jarvis Cocker talks to Faber Publishing Director Lee Brackstone about songwriting and the publication of Mother, Brother, Lover, his first collection of lyrics:

Mother, Brother, Lover will be published by Faber in October.

(via Largehearted Boy)

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Alex Ross | School of Life

March 17, 2011

In this short interview, Alex Ross, music critic of The New Yorker and author of The Rest is Noise and Listen to This, discusses music and music criticism: Thanks to the chaps at We Made This for directing me to The School Life of video series.

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Intellectual Messiness

January 18, 2011

Embracing…messiness and understanding its contribution to the creative process is something that writers and creative types, artists, whatever have got to cultivate, have to learn to be comfortable with. Because it goes against a lot of our kind of instincts and training as kind of educated people. Writer Malcolm Gladwell at The Big Think:

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Bring the Noise: Alex Ross Talks to Paul Morley

December 13, 2010

Paul Morley interviews fellow music critic Alex Ross, author of The Rest is Noise and Listen to This,  for The Guardian: Morley’s post about critics, and meeting Alex Ross, is also worth reading: I’ve always liked a critic who doesn’t think like anyone else. Someone who takes me so much by surprise with their opinions, [...]

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