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prospectmagazine.co.uk | Susie Mesure
The dividing line between memoir and autofiction can feel blurred, yet writers expect readers to treat the former as truth and the latter as anything between fact and fiction. Not so Mary McCarthy, the American writer best known for her 1963 novel The Group, which follows the lives of eight Vassar College graduates in the 1930s.
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inews.co.uk | Susie Mesure
When Tove Jansson wrote her first Moomin story, Europe was at war, forcing millions of people to flee their homes, and the threatened atomic bomb was about to become reality. Feeling too desperate to paint, the young Finnish artist sought solace in dreaming up fairy tales about the white, hippo-like creatures, little imagining they would spawn a £650m business.
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2 weeks ago |
ca.news.yahoo.com | Susie Mesure
Growing up in Kinshasa, Kenny-Emmanuel Otshudi saw first-hand how difficult his father found it to secure financing for his telecommunications services company. Commercial banks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo typically lend money on only a short-term basis and there is no stock market. “It’s really hard for businesses to raise money. They need financial support to be able to grow,” Otshudi says.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Susie Mesure
Hofesh Shechter thinks we are confused by modern dance. “People are misguided,” he says. “English audiences, in particular, expect to come in, understand it, and have a good conversation about it afterwards.”The Israeli-born, soon-to-be-British choreographer would prefer people to approach contemporary dance “more like a concert” – something you experience “through your senses”.
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3 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Susie Mesure
The leading choreographer on why Oedipus with Rami Malek was a 'suicide mission', becoming a UK citizen and why he left IsraelHofesh Shechter thinks we are confused by modern dance. "People are misguided," he says.
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