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Letter to A Young Writer | Alex Preston
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In Love and War. Criticism, Essays and Short Stories. Interviews and Other Stuff. Letter to A Young Writer. In July, 2014, just after the publication of. In Love and War. I was asked to speak to students on the Creative Writing Master’s programme at Oxford University. I read them a letter that I wrote to my younger self. Here it is, with a few illustrative pics. Well, Alex, Faber are taking you now, taking your first novel, This Bleeding City. 1) Don’t make a fetish of your writing. Don’t say you can...
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Florence, Fiction and Historical Fact | Alex Preston
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In Love and War. Criticism, Essays and Short Stories. Interviews and Other Stuff. Florence, Fiction and Historical Fact. In Love and War. Took refuge as first Fascism, then Nazism, drew their pall over the city. It was here, from the ‘30s to his death in the mid-‘60s, that Frederick Bailey, who features in my book, was chaplain. He was also a secret agent. I’d been invited to St Mark’s, for many years the centre of Florence’s English ex-pat community, to speak about. In Love and War. In Love and War.
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Blog | Alex Preston
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In Love and War. Criticism, Essays and Short Stories. Interviews and Other Stuff. Wednesday, October 8th, 2014. Florence, Fiction and Historical Fact. In Love and War. Took refuge as first Fascism, then Nazism, drew their pall over the city. It was here, from the ‘30s to his death in the mid-‘60s, that Frederick Bailey, who features in my book, was chaplain. He was also a secret agent. I’d been invited to St Mark’s, for many years the centre of Florence’s English ex-pat community, to speak about. It was ...