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Koushik Banerjea used to peddle vintage jeans and theory. The jeans on London market stalls, the theory at the London School of Economics. Now he makes do with fiction. His short stories have appeared in Minor Literatures, Writers Resist and Verbal. His debut novel Another Kind Of Concrete was published in 2020. Category Unknown, published by London Books, is his second. He deejayed as one half of The Shirley Crabtree Experience, survived the Hatfield train crash and once had dinner with legendary vibes-man Roy Ayers. He is currently working on a short story collection and a number of original essays, developed during lockdown. There is also a third novel in the pipeline.
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It’s a London thing

Ever find yourself rolling your eyes when you hear that phrase ‘back in the day’? As often as not uttered by some grisled cynic bemoaning the loss of an older…
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To refine her skills as an architect, Nicole Voss went searching for the meaning of creativity. What she found was writing. 6 1
Stephen Newton shares his path from the world of fiction to documentary film making. Stories told with the permission, and earned trust, of the films" subjects. 3 0
"In my childhood, it wasn’t unusual for the crashed remains of fighter planes to be unearthed by farm activity. The fascination of that endurance of past events in the landscape informs my work, I think, in part because I enjoy the notion of the reversal that Garner so brilliantly demonstrated. People think they shape the land. But the land shapes them. Though I’m sure that anyone from an indigenous community reading that would think it was no great insight." - Mark Wagstaff 2 0
'Throughout the majority of humanity’s existence, creativity has been regarded as a mystical enigma. Architect and architecture critic Robert Furneaux Jordan asserted that “to comprehend [creativity] fully would be to be God. We can never comprehend God.” Thanks to this prevailing opinion, it wasn’t until the late 1940s that the study of creativity even started down the path toward legitimacy. In the seven decades since, the psychological and neurological basis of creativity has been fully extracted from the occult and shown to be ingrained in our species.' 8 0
"I write about equity and social justice, just maybe because I want to love this world and I want it—I want us, the people of the world, to treat each other better, or at least move closer to trying. I write about equity and social justice because I spent forty-plus years trying to address it through our educational system, and I don't want to waste the insight I've gained. Loving the world means seeing it as it is and as it might be and doing what I can—which is, now, to write." 3 0
- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Commencement speech @fandmcollege, May 2022. 3 0

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