Richard Gwyn

The Future is Dark: Woolf, Solnit, Darrieussecq . . . and the Lucy Letby trial

These words were cast before me by a triad of women writers,  each of whom has had a significant influence on my thinking at one time or other: Marie Darrieussecq, Rebecca Solnit and Virginia Woolf.  Marie Darrieussecq opens… Read More

How long is a piece of string?

Or how long should a piece of writing be? Reflecting on this, in relation to a piece I am working on, I haphazardly check into an article in The New Yorker and am reminded by John McPhee that… Read More