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MYSTERIOUS: Eliza clark - What They Never Told You

Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is more complicated

IN FOCUS: As debates over the ‘disappearing’ young male novelist rumble on, some authors and critics push back against claims that fiction has closed its doors to men. Hannah Ewens learns that the real problem is less about publishing and more about a wider societal issue

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On my radar: Romola Garai’s cultural highlights

The actor on her love of sad songs, history podcasts and cemeteries with mysterious gravestones

The Guardian - UK

She’s Always Hungry by Eliza Clark review – dark delights

A bona-fide queen of body horror delves into fears and illicit desires in this engrossing short-story debut

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Eliza Clark: ‘I don’t think we respect female writers’

The British novelist on including content warnings in her first short story collection, why she struggles at book signings and the ‘flagrant sexism’ female authors are subjected to

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‘I feel like when I’m 50 people will take me seriously’: novelists Eliza Clark and Julia Armfield in conversation

The two authors, who became friends during lockdown, discuss their experiences in the UK publishing industry, the day job, and books they love

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Boy Parts author Eliza Clark: ‘Everything’s become bland – people just don’t want the slop anymore’

The 29-year-old novelist behind bestsellers ‘Boy Parts’ and ‘Penance’ – and named one of Britain’s future literary stars by Granta – speaks to Adam White about class, criticism and moral puritanism

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Eliza Clark’s BookTok sensation Boy Parts becomes a one-woman show

Aimée Kelly will star in adaptation of the 2020 novel about an artist who takes explicit photographs of young men

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‘A smorgasbord of unlikability’: the authors helping ‘sad girl lit’ grow up

In this post-Fleabag world, publishing has become obsessed with the inner turmoils of messy millennials – but isn’t it time they pulled themselves together? Meet the novelists subverting the cliches

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Juno Dawson: ‘The Secret History by Donna Tartt is a deeply vibey novel’

The YA author on identifying with Armistead Maupin and learning from Malorie Blackman

The Guardian - UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt and Kala by Colin Walsh.

The Independent UK

Penance by Eliza Clark review – art or porn?

Set in a northern seaside town, this show-stopping second novel is a bravura deconstruction of our voyeuristic love for true crime

The Guardian - UK

Eliza Clark: ‘I’m more primary school teacher than enfant terrible’

Hailed by Granta as one of Britain’s best young novelists, the author of the TikTok sensation Boy Parts talks about her new book, a crime story based on a real-life murder – and why Bret Easton Ellis wouldn’t talk to her

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On my radar: Milly Alcock’s cultural highlights

The Australian star of House of the Dragon and Upright on her favourite podcast, an immersive art experience and a novel of ugly emotions

The Guardian - UK

Granta 163: Best of Young British Novelists 5 review – more solipsism than state of the nation

The latest celebration of emerging literary talent brings thrills, charm and emotional punch to the page. But this new generation have taken an inward turn compared with the more worldly themes of bygone years

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Granta reveals its pick of future star British novelists

The journal’s once-in-a-decade selection of the best fiction writers under 40 has broadened its selection of 20 to include authors who ‘regard the UK as their home’

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