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- Mark ElliottInterview
The Waves by Virginia Woolf. This is a beautiful complexity of human emotion, any alien would understand us to possess the potential to inhabit a beautiful landscape of imaginations, in which we intertwine by virtue of our common mortal coil. If they are themselves mortal, they may also join.
- Amy Andelson and Emily MeyerInterview
At 16 we’d re-read Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. She is full of timeless wisdom that could have been of great comfort in those awkward in-between years. At 25 we’d gift ourselves The Waves by Virginia Woolf — it’s a beautiful story about a group of friends navigating the time between childhood and adulthood.
- Ramsey CampbellInterview
That’s an odd one. At sixteen I’d already read quite a few books that helped point my way as a writer – Cry Horror by H.P. Lovecraft (his first British paperback collection, in which I lost myself for an entire day), Night’s Black Agents by Fritz Leiber (which revealed to me the possibilities of the modern urban…
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