If you’re one of those people fascinated by the writer’s rooms you’re not alone. Literary tourism is big business. Agatha Christie’s recently opened house in … Read more »
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Muzafer Sherif’s right hand man – OJ Harvey
Textbook accounts of Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment put Sherif front and centre of the story. But the stories of famous psychological experiments often ignore … Read more »
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Inspiration a state of mind
Inspiration comes if you go looking for it. Take this surreal photo of a cow carcass, wedged sideways in a tree. It was taken by … Read more »
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Rules for rewriting non fiction
This week I had a deadline and I was faced with the unhappy but familiar task of turning a clunky overblown draft into a focussed … Read more »
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Yale appoints Professor of Pickpocketing
Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment with its elaborate deception and sleight-of-hand was conducted in 1961 in the basement of a building at Yale University. Not that … Read more »
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Finding the music in interviews
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. Anais Nin. I always procrastinate when it comes to transcribing interviews. I regard … Read more »