It is thanks to this great interview with A.M.Homes that I am currently totally engrossed in May We be Forgiven,
This book is the worthy winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the ten minute interview is well worth watching.
Homes (or A.M as Jeanette Winterson calls her) has plenty of smart things to say about why fiction matters, gender issues and why she set out to write the great American novel.
At 2011’s Future Digital Innovation Awards, the app produced by Touch Press for The Waste Land won the adult prize.
This doesn’t mean that the London-based digital publishers have sexed up T.S. Elliot’s epic poem but is, instead, a reward for a beautifully presented application that used the possibilities of the iPad to the full.
I remember the excitement when CD Roms first came out only to find that these mostly proved to be clunky and uninspiring products. They now seem positively archaic by the side of the latest technology. Continue reading
“God spoke crow – But what loved the stones
And spoke stone? – They seemed to exist too”
– Crow’s Theology by Ted Hughes
“To build the Stone Gods, the island has been destroyed, and now the Stone Gods are themselves destroyed”
“I ‘ve brought something with me that you might like to read. It’s in my bag. It’s called The Stone Gods. I found it on the Underground last night.
What’s it about?
A repeating world”
Gods, stone shaped or otherwise, are never going to save the world. We may pray to a spirit in the sky but there in reality there is no guiding spirit above, only the vastness of space. Continue reading
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