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Author Mitch Johnson at Ketts Books in Wymondham - Credit: Supplied by Ketts Books As shops re-open we ask the people running some of our local independents what’s selling, what’s recommended and what they’ve loved reading during lockdown. Tracy Kenny, manager of Kett’s Books in Wymondham, said: “Its just been wonderful to be able to throw open the door and watch customers so happy to come in. They are happy to be in town, and especially to be allowed to browse and discover books the...

"Kisner displays an impressive range of narrative modes in [ Thin Places], bouncing nimbly between gravity (in her ethnography and her bird’s-eye philosophizing) and comic relief, which she peppers in just when our heads are starting to spin . . . In The Other City, about the months she spent reporting on death investigations and autopsies in Cleveland, Kisner writes: Leaving the office every night, I’d get breathless rushes of reality. That’s a lot like what these essays feel like, too: ...

Exciting news for period drama fans By Hope Coke O: Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and Sebastião Salgado. Opalescence by James Ogilvy, 2015. The lead image for the Thin Places series released by Lumitrix in partnership with Artsy Courtesy of Lumitrix and James Ogilvy How has your journey informed you? O: I have always loved photography of all kinds and appreciate many different styles...

This is Thresholds, a series of conversations with writers about experiences that completely turned them upside down, disoriented them in their lives, changed them, and changed how and why they wanted to write. Hosted by Jordan Kisner, author of the new essay collection, Thin Places, and brought to you by Lit Hub Radio. On today’s episode, Jordan talks to Fernanda Melchor about researching and writing her novel Hurricane Season, her decision to leave Veracruz, and the complicity between fa...

Ive lived in the very heart of Ireland for just over a year, now. My partner and I crossed that meandering, century-old Border just as 2019 began its shape-shifting into the year that would be 2020. We were leaving a house in Derry, something I seem to have spent most of my life doing - but this time I was leaving through choice - for reasons other than violence or pain. I was moving to a place where I might finally learn how to stay. That Border we crossed has been the thread that has run thr...

Ive lived in the very heart of Ireland for just over a year, now. My partner and I crossed that meandering, century-old Border just as 2019 began its shape-shifting into the year that would be 2020. We were leaving a house in Derry, something I seem to have spent most of my life doing - but this time I was leaving through choice - for reasons other than violence or pain. I was moving to a place where I might finally learn how to stay.

Can the Irish border be described as a ‘thin place’? Never have I read such an eloquent description for the omnipresent border in our psyche. A ‘thin place’ is an odd expression for those unaccustomed to it; the term means somewhere where life and death each feel a little closer. These places, the Kerri ní Dochartaigh writes, “are so thin that you meet yourself in the still point”. In other words, they refract our sense of place, often allowing us to consider where we are — both ...

One of Northern Irelands most haunting and unsolved murders is relived in harrowing detail in a powerful new memoir by a friend of the victim.

This is Thresholds, a series of conversations with writers about experiences that completely turned them upside down, disoriented them in their lives, changed them, and changed how and why they wanted to write. Hosted by Jordan Kisner, author of the new essay collection, Thin Places, and brought to you by Lit Hub Radio. In this episode, Catherine Lacey, author of the novel  Pew, discusses the impressionability of a religious childhood, how being a stranger in a new town influenced her novel,...

Thin Places by Kerri ní Dochartaigh review – a survivors story Sean O’Hagan © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer The “thin places” that give this book its title exist in Irish mythology as thresholds or portals to the other side; sites where the veil between this world and the next is most porous. Known to locals through oral stories passed down the generations, they are vestiges of an older, stranger Ireland, their resonance still palpab...