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Category: Professor Wu’s Rulebook
Opinion pieces; blog posts; articles
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With the average Briton set to spend over half their monthly wage packet on Christmas this year, and their American cousins set to spend a similar amount, there’s a good bet a significant amount of this money will be spent on what some may term “tat”. Of course, we’d hesitate before using the term to…
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A repulsive horror? How famous writers responded to winning the notorious ‘Bad Sex in Fiction Award’
Every year in November, the lovers of literature hold their breath as they await news of the winner of one of the most notorious ‘booby’ prizes in the world: the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Founded in 1993 by the Literary Review, the award causes titular delight among its hordes of fans, and has developed…
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‘There is nothing so dangerous to good writing as having too much time, too much liberty. You need the filtration system of being kept from your work,’ so says renown author Maggie O’Farrel. Writing in The Guardian, she says that “the idea that there is a typical ‘writing day’ makes me laugh”. Here at Nothing…
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Think you know what it takes to become the next Picasso or Monet? Think again! There are 5000 shades of white – and they all have specific names that are usually unheard of. The most common shades are codswallop and bumdergard. Wild easels make the best artistic companions, but they must be caught first.…
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There has been much debate in recent years regarding the future of bookselling, and whether the online retail industry can – or will – replace traditional bricks and mortar bookstores you find on the physical high street. While we can’t yet answer this question, we can tell you a little about the ways in which…
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In a year that began with a spate of celebrity deaths including David Bowie and Alan Rickman, and ended with the election of Donald Trump to the US Presidency after taking us via both Brexit and the news that the planet has now passed through the ‘carbon threshold’, there have been precious few things for…
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Here’s a new one for you – what if we were to argue that literary scholarship and the general study of literature no longer requires you to actually read any books? Instead, the same results could be achieved by using computers to crunch “big data” and stores of literary information to provide new insights…
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Reading books is a way of studying human beings – ourselves – our ideas and our passions, our cultures and histories, our successes and our failures. So how did we reach a point where the literary world is increasingly divided by accusations of, variously, elitism or populism? In the intriguing book Philology: The Forgotten Origins…
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This period mystery is set in the mid-eighteenth century; Bath is a fashionable watering place, but hasn’t always been quite as civilized. Beau Nash, master of ceremonies and ‘King of Bath’, the man who made it so, has just died and been buried in a pauper’s grave. Rich invalids come to sample the curative…
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