New Writing

As editors Toby Litt and Ali Smith explain in their introduction: "newness is quite a venerable category. There`s not much that`s new about it. In the 1930s, when a magazine called New Writing was first published, it had to compete with New Signatures , New Country , New Verse , the New Statesman and Nation and New Theatre , and what with the New Woman of the 1890s and new everything else, even then, new wasn’t the new new... If we’ve achieved diversity, it’s because our submissions were themselves diverse; and the final selection is representative of the proportion of short stories to novel extracts, poems and essays that were submitted. Originality is only proven over time, paradoxically. We are confident that some of the names here you’ve never heard before will become very familiar. They may even disgrace themselves by winning prizes, becoming established, etc. But they’ll be the kinds of writer, like the known names published here, for whom everything they write is a renewal - of language, of place, of the senses and of the contemporary."
ASIN: 0330485997
VSKU: BVV.0330485997.A
Condition: Acceptable
Author/Artist:Litt, Toby
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.