The Mike Robbins blog
Travel, science, books. Whatever I feel like, really.
Sunday, 19 November 2017
Make the reader do the work
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Three books that work the reader hard, and are the better for it Show, don’t tell. It’s the classic advice to writers. My character was wo...
Tuesday, 24 October 2017
Being Beastly in Fleet Street
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Alexander Starritt’s novel The Beast is a savage satire on the tabloid newspaper. It’s a worthy successor to Evelyn Waugh and J.B. Priestl...
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Sunday, 13 August 2017
On whether he warned us
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Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer from the 1920s and 1930s. Exiled by fascism, he committed suicide in 1942. Now liberals hold him up as ...
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