Somewhere north of forty a woman stops being allowed to be the heroine of any story, even her […]
Memoir
In the cold, dark days of the new year I find that the door to wakefulness is prised […]
We know that this long, hot summer has been a distraction but now that it’s started to cool […]
The Real Story will be running a life writing and personal narrative workshop at the first Prestwich Arts […]
At the time she was writing Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso’s personal diary was eight hundred thousand words long. Never […]
You start early, dressing up in a downstairs bedroom, which is lamp lit with curtains drawn. A bed, […]
It’s 1976, I’m seven years old and two things happen. First, mum becomes very fat. And second, she […]
Marilyn Kilmister is entertained by the sight of his own blood. He’s been thrown through tables, off balconies, […]
Around here, we watch the news all the time. Not for opinion, for information. Information about ourselves, about […]
To your waiting rivals on this half of the city, you are the most prized, the tenderest of […]