Jeanette Winterson

The Times Online has a nice piece imagining a reading list for capitalists:
Right now, I would like to put every City trader and master-of-the universe banker into an offshore penal colony where they would have to make their own clothes out of copies of The Wall Street Journal, cook a ration of rice in a [...]



Five Questions: Skint Writer

1. Why do you blog?
Started blogging to try and gain exposure for my writing after years of frustration trying to get noticed through the traditional routes.
Blogging was just another thing to try; it has now become much more than that. As well as gaining a growing audience/readership I feel I have gained friends and now [...]






About Writing:

When I was nine, my fountain pen (packed in cotton) arrived as a "sample of no commercial value" all the way from Aachen, where my grandmother (the kindly donor) used to live. I lay in bed with the flu, while the February winds howled around the apartment house. This splendid fountain pen came in a red leather case, and I showed it to my girlfriends the first chance I got. Me, Anne Frank, the proud owner of a fountain pen.

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