Archives for February 5, 2008

• Zadie Smith explains why no prize will be given this year in the Willesden Herald‘s short story contest. Really provocative & interesting. (Via TEV.)
• The affair of the mind that may have inspired Possession. (See also.)

“Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.”
Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth