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Why I signed the 'Occupy Writers' statement (Oct. 2011)

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I 've been asked by Slate for a quote about why I added my name to the Occupy Writers list. I suspect they may not be able to run the whole statement, so I've asked them to link here. Far more eloquent that anything I can say are the testimonies on this blog.

Posted on October 20th, 2011

European Writers Parliament, Istanbul November 2010

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 I arrived today in Istanbul, for the European Writers Parliament. I'm scheduled to give one of the opening addresses tomorrow, which I'll post here after I've given it.

Posted on November 24th, 2010

Address to European Writers Parliament 25th November 2010

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What are we doing here?

Posted on November 25th, 2010

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Arundhati, Hari, Li Jia
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Oscar Party
Interviewing Wole Soyinka Bali 2009
David Mitchell
Posted on December 31st, 2008
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Hunter S. Thompson (1998)

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A review of The Proud Highway: The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume One

Some time during the nineteen-sixties, the voice of American journalism went through a radical change. Tom Wolfe christened the phenomenon "the New Journalism", and in a triumphant essay claimed that non-fiction writers had, after years of being treated as second-class citizens, finally taken the literary high-ground away from the novelists. Wolfe pointed to the new stylistic freedom given to writers by hip magazines like Jan Wenner's Rolling Stone, and suggested that the massive popularity of long, highly-coloured, idiosyncratic features was linked to the novel's failure to address the sudden shift in "manners and morals" taking place in American culture.
Posted on December 17th, 2008
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