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A Conversation with Amie McNee — nb. Magazine

3 weeks ago | nbmagazine.co.uk | Isobel Edmondson |Sophie Percival

What are you most excited about when it comes to the launch of your new book: We Need Your Art? I'm excited for We Need Your Art to go out there and start changing people's lives. For my book baby to go have a life of her own, inspiring people to create, taking care of artists who are hurting, gently nudging people back to their art. This lead up has been so intense, and I have championed this book with my whole heart. It is time for the book to start working her magic.
Acts of Desperation, Megan Nolan — nb. Magazine

Aug 14, 2024 | nbmagazine.co.uk | Isobel Edmondson |Sophie Percival

An unnamed narrator meets alluring writer, Ciaran. After a short and passionate affair, she feels she has been dropped without warning, and will do just about anything to go back to how things were. It’s perhaps the simplest line in Megan Nolan’s debut novel that made me well up: “That is when it should’ve ended”.
Sad Girl Novel, Pip Finkemeyer — nb. Magazine

Aug 14, 2024 | nbmagazine.co.uk | Isobel Edmondson |Sophie Percival

Pip Finkemeyer’s Sad Girl Novel is a novel about writing a novel—or rather, avoiding writing one. I am often drawn to stories about writers, and with authors often “writing what they know”, they can be insightful reads. This one is extra meta, as it’s an actual real-life book is written while narrator Kim dilly-dallies around from cover to cover. Her life is one big blank page before her, and she’ll do anything to avoid facing it.
The Damages, Genevieve Scott — nb. Magazine

Jun 28, 2024 | nbmagazine.co.uk | Isobel Edmondson |Sophie Percival

Set in the context of the pandemic and the boom of the MeToo movement, Genevieve Scott offers a complex and personal story of shame, blame and belated fights for justice in a new age. Ros is unsure of herself in her short time at Regis University, morphing into whoever she imagines her friends and perfect strangers alike want to see at any given moment. She could never have foreseen how being such a chameleon would backfire.
Rouge, Mona Awad — nb. Magazine

Apr 10, 2024 | nbmagazine.co.uk | Isobel Edmondson |Sophie Percival

Rouge, its title reminiscent of the Moulin Rouge, follows the adventures of Montreal-born Mirabelle. She has recently lost her mother and is left to sort her affairs in California, where she must deal with her absence after being the object of scrutiny her whole life. I entered blind, having not read Bunny, a fan favourite.
A Conversation with Clementine Taylor on Something About Her — nb. Magazine

Apr 5, 2024 | nbmagazine.co.uk | Isobel Edmondson |Madeleine Knowles

This is your debut novel. Congratulations! How did the process begin? After I finished my undergraduate degree, I was reading more and more and really falling in love with fiction. I’d always enjoyed reading, but for some reason things shifted for me around then. I constantly craved that feeling of escape into another world – it was unlike any other sensation I could grasp. A few years later, I had a real curiosity to see what it would feel like to try and write something myself.
Prodding the Memory of Artificial Intelligence with Dan Power — nb. Magazine

Nov 2, 2023 | nbmagazine.co.uk | Isobel Edmondson |Madeleine Knowles

Should we see AI and art as conflicting forces? Dan Power thinks not, using AI as a creative tool in his latest poetry pamphlet, Memory Foam, in which a mild-mannered AI offers its view on mortal topics like loneliness and dreams, written using only phrases generated in conversation with ChatGPT. nb.
Review: Dramsoc’s ‘The Staff’ at Winston Theatre

Feb 22, 2023 | epigram.org.uk | Isobel Edmondson

By Isobel Edmondson, Travel Digital Editor“A job is a job” and “Student wellbeing is student wellbeing” are just a couple of lines echoing the empty yet loaded circular phrase we hear too often when things are going downhill: it is what it is. "Much was open to interpretation; I imagine each audience member had a completely unique watching experience.