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Ghost Stories: bibliotherapy, grief, and learning to survive

Death is the last great literary taboo. On a sunny day or a fire-lit night, a book that reminds you that you, or the ones you love, could vanish at any moment is not the natural choice. Only once the loss occurs do people grasp for someone else’s story;

Ghost Stories: bibliotherapy, grief, and learning to survive
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The old and new of literary plagiarism

T.S. Eliot is misquoted as saying “good writers borrow, great writers steal”. What he actually wrote was: “immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” The thin line between plagiarism and ‘drawing

The old and new of literary plagiarism
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I despise a narrator with a smartphone in their hand

What fiction tells us about the human experience modulated by smartphones. The novel – especially when written in first person – allows insight into someone else’s interiority in a way that other media cannot. Sometimes, readers may have more knowledge of what a character thinks and feels about what is happening

I despise a narrator with a smartphone in their hand
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