Ever sat down to write something and suddenly had absolutely no idea what to write? We’ve all been there, and sometimes even the greatest writers deal with the dreaded Writer’s Block. Sit back as we go through some of the more extreme cases of brilliant writers falling victim to the dreaded block, and in some cases their curious solutions. Read more

What was I thinking when I gave a list of some of my favourite authors and left out Wallace Stegner? He must be one of the most under-appreciated writers of the twentieth century, certainly outside his native America. (To digress for a moment: I hate the idea of writers falling out of fashion, but they do – just think of Graham Greene, Somerset Maugham, C.P. Snow, Anthony Powell, Jean Rhy... Read more