Paul Anderson, Anna Chen and Alan Mitchell in Suffolk, March 2016. Pic by Charles Shaar Murray Tomorrow we bury our friend, brother, son, and father, Alan Mitchell. Alan Mitchell 9th November 1960 to 22nd June 2016 In the outside world, it was the darkest period of our lives in a generation. We were about to topple […]
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Charles Shaar Murray’s Journalism as Craft and Art writing course goes live tonight in NW6 for eight weeks. The Hothouse Project is now on Facebook and here’s what amounts to our manifesto: Charles Shaar Murray’s “Journalism as Craft and Art” writing course is the basis of our alternative education group, The Hothouse Project, featuring the
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Or learn how to pimp your prose. Legendary author and journalist Charles Shaar Murray’s excellent Hothouse Project “Journalism as Art and Craft” writing classes return to north London in September for eight weeks. CSM has been dubbed “the rock writers’ rock writer” and has accumulated a wealth of knowledge over his four decade career which
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Inspired by Gwynneth Paltrow’s Journal at goop.com, I will now take an organic leaf out of her virtual volume and keep a diary of my struggle as a lady of letters. 7.30am Wake up. Twilight. Cold. Forbidding. 7.35am Fall asleep. 8.05am Wake up. Stare at the space where my mug of tea should be. The
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Oh my good frickin’ god. That must have been a bad puddy. This report from the American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology (via Private Eye) reads like a horror story par excellence. It’s the cool scientific tone that packs the punch as we see the whole episode and backstory played out in our mind’s
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May I just say, “Blimey!”? I’ve just heard from the organisers of The Orwell Prize that I’ve made the longlist in the Blog category. “They are awarded to the book, the journalism and the blogposts which are judged to have best achieved George Orwell’s aim to ‘make political writing into an art’.” When I submitted
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