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9 December 2017. The White Review. I’m not really a journal reader.

If you could go anywhere in time for one day, where would you go and why?
Probably 1922: year of Ulysses and The Waste Land. Commercially – if that’s the right word – small presses don’t have the financial or marketing director muscling in on creative decision-making.

9 December 2017. Translated fiction has its advocates in book shops, as does high-end literary fiction – they just need to keep hand selling the books they love.

6) Finally, the million-dollar question: what should the publishing world do or keep on doing to support and promote small indie presses and their authors?

It’s the ‘visibility’ thing again – any event, promotion, conversation that keeps small presses as part of the publishing narrative helps.

neil griffiths author biography

9 December 2017.

  • Web site: Neil Griffiths. And I read a lot of theology.

    As an author, what are you most proud (or embarrassed) of writing?
    Not sure. This novel took nine years.

    What are you working on now?
    I’m thinking about a memoir that starts on the day I was born, and then goes backwards.

    BookBlast interview with Neil Griffiths, author and founder of The Republic of Consciousness Prize

    Neil Griffiths, where were you born, and where did you grow up?
    I was born in South London and grew up in various places in the South East of England.

    What sorts of books were in your family home?

    Dodo Ink. 9 December 2017.

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    No fiction at all. But equally, late 1950s New York. 9 December 2017.
  • Web site: The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses: Longlist Announcement. 8 October 2017. My first influence came from English teachers at school – a rather enlightened man gave me Crime and Punishment at fourteen.

    We are lucky to have him.

    Do you enjoy reading e-books?
    No, and I don’t.

    Your views on how new technology has (or has not) changed your writing life? Where else can you find Ulysses read-throughs?

    What are your favourite literary journals?
    I’m very fond of the range of the Times Literary Supplement.

    Someone somewhere in Waterstones makes a decision about what they’ll bulk order and make visible, and that will lead to sales. Graham-Brown.. Because we’re looking to reward ‘hardcore literary fiction and gorgeous prose’, I act as first filter so judges don’t get bittersweet novels about country life etc.