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Kafka’s Scraps

Monday, July 19, 2010

Was just reading that four vaults worth of unseen Kafka are to be opened as part of an ongoing tussle for ownership. The condensed version: Max Brod, close friend of Kafka, was left all of the Czech (or, more accurately, Austro-Hungarian) neurotic’s scribblings. Kafka wanted him to burn them. Instead, Max published many of the [...]

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Fantasy Fiction League

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

In the first year of my MA, I remember a workshop discussion kicking off about whether the chapter I’d just presented was fantasy. People were using names like China Meiville and Michael Moorcock. It came as a surprise to me. I thought I was just writing fiction. Perhaps I was naive: the chapter contained a [...]

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