Sitemap - 2023 - Juvenescence with Leah McLaren

betwixtmas

me and maud spud

the Agent Question answered -- for good

what not to get for christmas

how to get divorced at christmas

A conversation with the writer Tomiwa Owolade

Invite your friends to read Juvenescence

what i'm reading and cooking (when i'm not writing)

liminal london

in praise of pointless texting

it's my birthday!

why women need pockets

stuff worth reading on your phone

on David Sedaris and unfixable problems

rich people fighting

A conversation about heartbreak with the writer Laura Pratt

I have no advice to give my younger self

on the importance of noticing things as a writer

in praise of lectures

stuff worth looking on your phone this weekend

on coincidence and memory

stuff worth looking at on your phone this weekend

on retreating

five things worth reading on your phone

in praise of saving conversations

one-to-one hypnotherapy & coaching

relax, pour yourself a bath

back to shed (and school and work)

my interview with the brilliant, hilarious British debut novelist Sheena Patel

on open & closed tasks

if you want to change your life, change your friends

letter from spain

the pain principle of pleasure

the pleasure principle of pain

on cadence: the most important element of good writing no one talks about

tree surgery

how to exorcise your life

the summer of form-filling and fantasising

the unexpected joy of getting mugged

dirt, heat, water, bliss

a conversation with Margaret Atwood

the language of crying

this works

a conversation with the writer Stephen Marche

it's been a year

open thread: moral quandaries

field note from the trenches of american publishing

a conversation with the memoirist Christina Ford

dear miss

eros and psyche

on what matters

a conversation with the celebrated British debut novelist Sheena Patel

sweet lemons and gentle beasts

Notes! Notes! Notes!

note from a small island

observations on suffering

Terry Fallis: Part II

A conversation with the comic novelist Terry Fallis: Part I of II

On the rise of 'No Tories'

on making stuff

the dying afternoon

in praise of unsolicited compliments

trying super hard

how not to read a poem

A conversation with the Australian-Malaysian-British painter Nadine Talalla

Full audio version of my conversation with the London-based painter Nadine Talalla

A conversation with the London-based painter Nadine Talalla

how to be good

open thread #8: do you keep a diary?

on character building

climb every mountain

you can't write about this stuff

how not to move to the suburbs

lost and found

what’s the point?

in vacuo

Introducing: The Critical Fox

Megxit: Called it!

the theory of relativity

I like people

[COPY] A conversation with the bestselling novelist Bonnie Garmus

close a door, open a window, bake a cake

open thread #7: how do you rekindle the creative fire?