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Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis – On Creativity and Despair

June 26, 2006

On the Work of Sarah Kane. 4.48 Psychosis: it’s the title of playwright Sarah Kane’s final play, currently being staged at the Royal Court Theatre (note – this article written in May 2001) and it refers to the hour of day when mental derangement is at its most extreme.  Kane completed the play only a …

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Wedding Rondeau: musing on a serious literary life

June 12, 2005

This first entry from my earlier blog ‘This Stubborn World’ sees me returning from a trip to Barcelona, struggling with the tension between a serious literary life and the earnestness that I perceived in the coaching world, which I later went on to satirise in the person of James Loftus in my novel The Modigliani …

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