The Interesting Times #270 (30.12.25)

Issue #270

• They disappeared when the wall came down. >>Things That Disappear.

• Junk. >>Things That Disappear.

• Death, divorce, loss. >>The Heart-Shaped Tin.

• Witch trials and wax narrators. >>The Wax Child.

• Facing the blank page. >>The Wax Child.

• Odd things happened. >>Electric Spark.

• World-beating buster-upper. >>Electric Spark.

• An investigation into the nature of fiction and reality. >>A fictional inquiry.

• Using ChatGPT to write the novel. >>Sympathy Tower Tokyo.

• Charlatan or genius? >>Gertrude Stein: An afterlife.

• X. >>In Defence of Leisure.

• In my power to make it different. >>In Defence of Leisure.

• Writing about all of it. >>The Four Spent the Day Together.

• Writing Ugly. >>Dreaming of Dead People.

• The penultimate chapter. >>Dreaming of Dead People.

• Unlearning. >>Feeding Ghosts.

• Sheer gentleness. >>Fatherhood.

• Boots on the ground. >>Garrison World.

• Should a novel avoid the processes of its own composition? >>Lorem Ipsum.

• Technology, attention, and the extremely long paragraph.

• The space between reality and fantasy. >>The Accidentals.

• She is the situation. >>Big Kiss, Bye-Bye.

• Exploring the archive. >>Lanark.

• We teach life, sir. >>Resisting Erasure.

• Salvage and reconstruction.

• Near-sightedness.

• Thirteen Indian languages.

• The post-colonial experience.

• Become a better reader.

• A very big fight over a very small language.

• Our film recommendation this week: Hot Milk. >>Read the book!

• Pinter to Stoppard.