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I listened to a lot of REM when I was writing my early novels. Nightswimming was my favourite. Wistfulness on steroids.

Long time since I read Austin and Searle, but it sounds plausible.

Raymond Saucisson, charcuterie supremo and magazine editor, remembered ten years on I thought I’d celebrate the tenth anniversary of the passing of Raymond Saucisson by reposting this tribute from 2015: Raymond Saucisson, the noted gourmand and long-time editor of Charcuteri…

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Yep, read it. Totally depressing .

Just saving it now to read later. My desk is covered in read laters!

Or is it a cute spelling pun?

Thrilled to be longlisted for the 2025 Furphy Literary Award It’s a huge thrill for my short story Naming Rights to be longlisted for the Furphy Open Short Story Award, and a further confirmation that I seem to have made the transition from novels to s…

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The Accidental Arabist Some people plan their life trajectory. For me, serendipity has often trumped planning. How else did I find myself unexpectedly signing up to an Arabic degree more than fifty years ago? Recently I …

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You’ve got that about right. We spell it ‘Labor’ for an obscure historical reason.

When I visit the UK, I can’t believe that anyone could drink a whole megachino.

Have a pint at The Raven on my behalf !

Ah, one of my favourite places in the world, and a setting in one of my short stories.

Good luck!

Yes, great technique. It’s something to do with the text flow.

Stupid woman has got it mixed up. Those were German measles parties .

Yes, absolutely. Where did this trope come from?

Here’s the Parrot reference.

I kind of covered this in my dystopian novel The True History of Jude. As an Emeritus Prof, I am so glad that I never had to use the Stochastic Parrot in my teaching.

The Death of Truth Revisited The current deluge of alternate facts on social media has resurrected debate in our household about which apps we should ditch. This preoccupation with truth revived memories of June 1974, when I&#…

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It’s kind of blockchain writing.

Completely opposite to how I work. I write very slowly, editing as I go, and developing a model of the whole book in my mind as I write. At some point I jump forward and write ending, then go back to finish the middle.

I’ve culled my books many times over the years on these criteria: 1. Is it of great aesthetic , intellectual or sentimental value? 2. Did I write it? 3. Did a friend write it? If none apply, chuck!

Cover of The Ancestral Searcher

Good to see my creative nonfiction piece published here. Entitled 'I Thought I Knew Something About This Place', it deals with my family connections to Belfast.

Surely room for such a space in the White Bay complex?

Your Own Luck: A short story by Stuart Campbell ©2023Stuart Campbell This short story was written for my Free Shorts project, which culminated in a twelve-story collection entitled The Afternoon of the Jackal. In 2025, I’m releasing one of…

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Fascinating to read C. Bronte’s The Professor and see the foundations of Villette. Predictably she writes a better female POV in Villette than the male in The Professor . Stuartcampbellauthor@gmail.com (catching up on my 19thC literature on a cruise ship in Malaysia )

Reading C Bronte’s Villette on NYD in Bali, entirely seduced by Madame Beck. Www.stuartcampbellauthor.com

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And for short stories set in Australia and Britain, you might try The Afternoon of the Jackal - out now. Www.stuartcampbellauthor.com

Wow, powerful ! Such economy!

In my writing critique group it was always ‘cut, cut, cut’. Rereading Crime and Punishment - good thing Dostoyevsky wasn’t in a group like that. Www.stuartcampbellauthor.com