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Chasing the Lights – by Mark Powell

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It’s just a few days until Stuart Maconie headlines The Real Story Live! To get y’all excited, here’s a […]

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Stuart Maconie headlines the 2nd Real Story: LIVE!

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Come hear five writers read thrilling stories from real life at Manchester’s live creative nonfiction night. The headliner for […]

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The Real Story: LIVE!

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Come hear five writers read thrilling stories from real life at Manchester’s first live creative nonfiction night. Our […]

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Book Review: Any Other Mouth, by Anneliese Mackintosh

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Anneliese Mackintosh’s debut short story collection begins on an unnumbered page, obscured among the standard initial copyright & […]

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Book Review: The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head, by Louis Begley

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Franz Kafka is the modern template for ‘tortured genius.’ He once wrote that a book should be “an […]

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Book Review: The Wild Places, by Robert Macfarlane

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Robert Macfarlane must surely be a rarity; he is not only a Fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge, he […]

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Notes from the Smoking Garden: by Max Dunbar

This week, we’re proud to present a new piece of original nonfiction by Max Dunbar!  —- Notes from […]

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Considering: Speaking in Tongues, Zadie Smith

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Since 2009, when Speaking in Tongues was first published, I’ve read it probably about 20 times. Zadie Smith’s essays […]

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Book Signing: David Sedaris

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On Monday 24 June, the Manchester Waterstones hosted one of my absolutely heroes: David Sedaris. In fact, Sedaris […]

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Considering: Two Essays About Reading

Cynthia Ozick’s A Drugstore in Winter Eudora Welty’s A Sweet Devouring I didn’t intend to review two essays for […]

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