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Rachel Cusk & Siemon Scamell-Katz on Writing, Painting and the Vanishing Sublime

The Shakespeare and Company Interview

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Drama Is Too Hard, and It Shouldn't Ever Ask

Am is about middle-aged confrontation in the world of a young woman. The author says she was inspired by her own experience writing a play. She has always been a great reader of plays and hates going to them, but loves reading their text. In second place we've just been setting novels alongside plays, whereas they are set against each other rather than with one another. Is this because you're not leading us necessarily to a particular conclusion or a particular moral judgment? Or does it have something more to do with your desire for an easy read that doesn't require much explanation?

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