Tag: literature

• Lessons from Lessing: In Search of My Golden Notebook

  

  I can’t remember who recommended Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook (1962) to me as a teen, but I read it during a period when I was glutting myself on mid-20th-century British authors (Iris Murdoch and Margaret Drabble being two other stand-outs; Beryl Bainbridge, I’d meet only in my late 20s). The Golden Notebook is most…

  M L Clark

  March 6, 2021

  Book Talk, M L Clark, Writing Culture

  Doris Lessing, iris murdoch, literary agents, literary culture, literature, margaret drabble, philosophy, publishing industry, science fiction

• The Writer Returns to the Scene of the Theme

  

  So, it’s five days until Third Planet Fall Down releases, and I’m chuckling today over how difficult it is for a writer to escape who they are in their writing. The “work will out”, as the saying goes — and oh my, does it ever, when it comes to being made to confront our greatest…

  M L Clark

  December 9, 2020

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