'There’s a fear of great writing, of reaching for it, of calling it that': Eleanor Anstruther on prose style

Detailed discussion of writing and editing from the author of A Memoir in 65 Postcards ^ Plus Part 37 of The Demon Inside David Lynch

In today’s issue:

— ‘I owe it to the reader not to piss about with their time, and the same to the characters and stories which have chosen me. Who am I, in the face of such an honour, to send them ou…