Issue 8: rewriting and agency
'My heavenly favourite, I'll come straight out with it: I should have taken a paring knife and incised you like a sore in a claw horn...'
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'My heavenly favourite, I'll come straight out with it: I should have taken a paring knife and incised you like a sore in a claw horn...'
Rock, reel, smash, and swerve; hit it, hit it, on the curve; steady, steady, does the trick, keep her steady as a stick; eat the earth, eat the earth, slam and slug and beat the earth, and let her whir-r, and let her pur-r, at eighty per-r!
'...a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces.' So begins Look Homeward, Angel – in the view of some, the forgotten masterpiece of modernist literature.
If immortality came in a pill – would you swallow it?
Do we really want robot Morgan Freeman to read us Harry Potter?
This week has a fantasy focus – and a very big release announcement.