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What the novel or short story reveals about the writer Mostly, I read because I want to taken away on a journey which transports me into another world, another age, a different set of circumstances. It’s not exactly escapism as I don’t want to flee the world I live in but I do want to…
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Remembering Toni Morrison: a few thoughts and memories She was born Chloe Anthony Wofford . To imagine her with that name makes me think of a dreamy serious girl growing up in Ohio. She was never an easy read, not of syntax or of concept. But she wasn’t pompous or humourless. When I saw her…
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‘I have never tried to do anything but keep a part-time job and write whenever I felt like it.’ Ntozake Shange Ntozake Shange was one of a generation of writers who inspired me to see myself becoming a writer. James Baldwin was another. (There were no British writers at that time that did that for…
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Emma Allotey is an aspiring writer and voracious reader who lives in south London. Opinionated except about friends’ new boyfriends. Favourite writers: a mixture of the literary and the entertaining: James Baldwin, Alice Munro, Douglas Kennedy, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, John Cheever, Maggie O’Farrell, George Orwell, Ntozake Shange, Toni Morrison, Barbara Kingsolver, Sue Miller, Virginie Despentes,…
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I love reading and writing and thinking about literature and non-fiction.
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