A hotel on the Moray Firth estuary; an adrenaline-filled auction room in west London; an ad man’s office in Manhattan on DVD … AL Kennedy, William Boyd and others celebrate their cultural hideouts
Hit the streets of Glasgow with Chummy to hear how Scotland got BoJoed into a Brexit Britain controlled by Faraging gangsters and President Donald Bawbag
Jonathan Franzen claimed he won’t write about race because of limited ‘firsthand experience’, while Lionel Shriver hopes objection to ‘cultural appropriation is a passing fad’. So should there be boundaries on what a novelist can write about?
Feeding thousands of books into a computer to find new meaning in literature sounds intriguing, but does cultural analytics actually tell us anything about the books we read?
Join this year’s Booker longlisted author AL Kennedy, Will Self and Tony Parsons as they discuss writing about the UK capital at a Guardian live event held in – guess where – London
Joanne Harris has proposed new rules for authors and audiences’ interactions, but creators including Colm Tóibín and AL Kennedy think their only obligation is to words
Join this year’s Booker longlisted author AL Kennedy, Will Self and Tony Parsons as they discuss writing about the UK capital at a Guardian live event held in – guess where – London
Book of the day We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time by AL Kennedy review - wise, funny, human tales