- Virginia Woolf’s childhood magazine survives.
- David Lodge reminisces about his friendship with Malcolm Bradbury.
- In 2003, Jeanette Winterson profiled Ali Smith (The Accidental), who declined to discuss her private life and said “there should be no person between the reader and the book.” (Via Tingle Alley.)
- James Campbell investigates Richard Wright’s unpublished last novel and finds it’s “not the roman à clef that admirers of Wright who know of its existence might expect.”
- “The idea of a DVD magazine full of odd little films still sounds great. But maybe it’s the kind of idea that should be executed by somebody other than the editors of self-consciously weird literary magazines.” (Via Bookslut.)
