Can I teach you how to be a writer?
Jeanette Winterson believes that learning how to write, even reasonably well, gives fluency to the rest of lifeHi, I'm currently doing a creative writing essay and I'd like to ask for advice on how you would describe a bomb …That is my favourite Goog...
Jeanette Winterson remembers George Whitman
George Whitman's Paris bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, became my second home, says Jeanette WintersonIn 1958 George Whitman, who died this week, organised a reading in Paris for his friend Lawrence Durrell. Whitman had come to Paris as a GI in the w...
All about my mother
When her mother burnt her treasured hidden store of paperbacks, Jeanette Winterson decided the time had come to start writing herself. She looks back on how her loveless upbringing led to her becoming a writerFor most of my life I've been a bare-knuckl...
Ignore the Booker brouhaha. Readability is no test for literature | Jeanette Winterson
The Booker prize judges misunderstand literature and its purpose. Would they blame maths for being difficult?The Booker Best Pony in Show row is an annual event that at least lifts novels off the books pages and into the public debate. This year's figh...
My hero: Shelagh Delaney by Jeanette Winterson
Shelagh Delaney's first play, A Taste of Honey, was produced at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in 1958, and then transferred to the West End and Broadway. She was 18. It's the story of Jo, a working-class girl who gets pregnant while her mother holid...
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