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Author Mitch Johnson at Kett's 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: “It's 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 they didn't know they wanted. Chatting about those books, their kids, the dog - it's all good. It's g...

"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: reminders of the weird in-between feeling of being alive." — The New York Times Book Review "...

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. You never stop learning from others. Which photographers would you like to collect? O: Hiroshi Su...

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 fairy tale and femicide. From the interview: Fernanda Melchor: I kind of feel that my generation is me...

I've 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 through my entire life. A ghost vein on the map of my insides, it is a line that is political, physica...