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A Traveller’s Tale: an Inner and Outer Journey

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A Traveller’s Tale: an Inner and Outer Journey

Christina Houen2019-06-13T23:34:40+00:00August 14th, 2018|

Skating to Antarctica by Jenny Diski was published in 2003. I recently discovered it when a writer friend suggested I look at it as a model of unravelling a personal story by spiralling in and out of a themed narrative. I didn't know what to expect; I [...]

Writing Madness

Christina Houen2019-06-14T04:03:11+00:00February 18th, 2013|

Every now and then a memoir (or a novel) lands on my desk that shakes me out of my familiar mental world, and makes me realise how safe and comfortable my thinking is much of the time. I don't often think about this, except when something happens, [...]