David Smith
The Civil War for Books
By Philip Gwyn Jones, Publisher April 2015 Over the course of the last few years, it has come to feel that we bookish types are stuck in...
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David Smith
- Jan 26, 2020
- 11 min
The Slow Death of the University
By Prof. Terry Eagleton A few years ago, I was being shown around a large, very technologically advanced university in Asia by its proud...
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David Smith
- Jan 26, 2020
- 10 min
The Dark Arts of Book Editing by Stephen Stratford
“The book didn’t sell and yes, I was mean-spirited enough to rejoice”: An essay on the dark arts of book editing by Stephen Stratford ...
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David Smith
- Jan 26, 2020
- 16 min
The Role of the Literary Agent
The Literary Agent (Novel) by David Smith This is an updated version of a piece which appears in THE HANDBOOK OF CREATIVE WRITING, Ed....
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David Smith
- Jan 25, 2020
- 2 min
Inhumanities in Education
The wonderful Michael Morpurgo, appearing at the recent Nielsen Bestseller Awards Ceremony, said of bestseller status: "I'm not sure a...
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David Smith
- Mar 5, 2018
- 2 min
Violence Against Women: The CrimeFest Controversy
CrimeFest, the festival of crime writing which is held in Bristol each year and the newly launched Staunch Prize for crime fiction find...
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