What can writers and teachers of Creative Writing learn from psychiatry, neuroscience, and other medical disciplines about the links between creativity and mental illness? The podcast from the third Friday evening event, which took place on Friday 12th May 2017, can be listened to here: https://birkbeck.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c5377e27-5648-4bae-afe6-0b3e2d5b2072 Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan and Professor Rodrigo A. Bressan discuss Creative Writing and Mental […]
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Here is what’s been happening. Mutants, the book of Selected Essays I have been working on (without always realising it) for sixteen years, is out. It can be bought from The Hive. It was published by the wonderful Seagull Books, Calcutta, who also published Life-Like. The editor was Naveen Kishore. I’m extremely grateful he gave me the […]
This talk was first delivered to students of the Creative Writing MA at Birkbeck on May 3rd 2016. Leicester City won the Premier League, and since then a great deal of the national conversation – online, in newspapers, in corridors – has been, ‘How did they do it?’ The next thing after that, of course, is, […]
[This interview was conducted, the fax says, 21 Sep 2000 at 10:05.] TL: In Curriculum Vitae you say, ‘It seemed to me that the Comforters of Job were not at all distinct characters; they were very much of one type. They were, in fact, like modern interrogators who come to interview and mock the victim […]
I wrote this on 12th July 1995, if the date in the file is credible. At one point I called it ‘My Simplest Story’. At another (until about two minutes ago) I called it ‘My Russian Story’. But, for the moment, let’s just call it – A Village Story One day a man, a farmer, […]
The old www dot tobylitt dot com was just getting too tiny-text on phones, and too un-updateable generally. Sorry to those who liked it. Bits of it will be reappearing here – especially if requested. Therefore, from now on, all writings, doings, askings, likings and linkings will be happening wordpressly. Hello and welcome. I hope I […]
