”The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.”

Doris Lessing

What is ‘genre’? Today, a new collection, or mosaic novel, along with the nature of  ‘real’ versus ‘imaginary’ writing. We welcome back one of our occasional guests, Paul StJohn Mackintosh, who brings praise for Jeffrey Thomas’s The Unnamed Country, and then segues into M John Harrison and the question of writing as art.

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