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Read an interview with Laura Pettenuzzo on Crip Stories
Crip Stories is a collection of short works from disabled people, combining memoir, essays and poetry.
GOOD READING spoke to LAURA PETTENUZZO about her experiences editing the collection, and how the word 'crip' is now reclaimed and celebrated.
MEET LAURA PETTENUZZO
What initially drew you to this collection?
When Michelle (from Mascara Literary Review) first approached me with the idea for this anthology, several years ago ...
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Features
It’s 100 years since
Roald Dahl’s birth on 13 September 1916. For many years now, 13 September has been ...
PAUL MITCHELL is a poet, short story writer, and now a novelist with the release of We. Are. Family.
Paul ...
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Reviews
This novel, Jane Jago’s first, explores the seldom-discussed issue of violence perpetrated by children against ...
Isabelle Li’s 16 short stories immerse our senses in the depth of feeling, rhythms, and the mysterious elusiveness ...
Britt-Marie’s husband, Kent, has a heart attack and his mistress is looking after him in a Swedish hospital. ...
Some knowledge of US constitutional history would probably help the reader to understand the title of this novel. ...
Aravind Adiga’s first novel, The White Tiger, won the Booker Prize in 2008, mainly, I would suggest, for its ...
Jessie Burton’s debut novel, The Miniaturist, was published in 2014 to much fanfare but mixed reviews. It ...
What would you do if you knew you were the only person in America who could rescue the one man who could help ...
Bipolar psychiatrist Natalie King is recovering from a combination of PTSD and depression. She decides to relocate ...
In this 14th ‘Charlie Parker’ thriller, John Connolly has again posited an ancient evil that prospers in a sleepy ...
Bestselling crime writers have often said that they reference real life for their writing. I, perhaps naively, ...
Fat Charlie would rather be called just Charlie, or even the much more sophisticated Charles, but his father gave ...
Based on Arthur C Clarke’s novella A Meeting with Medusa, The Medusa Chronicles extends the story of Commander ...
Everyone has heard that sneering and disparaging maxim about teachers: ‘Those who can, do; those who can’t, ...
In this book, Philippe Sands, professor of law at University College London, investigates the intersections of the ...
A secret guild. A fake game of assassin. A real killer. Cate is eager to be a part of the Guild of Assassins. ...
Alex is not looking to become the most powerful bruja (the Spanish word for ‘witch’) in her family. In fact, ...
The first of these wonderful old tales is ‘The Little Old Lady from Around the Bend’. She is known by this name ...
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There once lived the queerest family of crows deep in a forest as everyone knows.
There was a crow ...
French-born but living in America, Guy inhabits a world of surfaces and appearances. In his mid-30s but passing ...
The Tolliver family members are cursed by their ability to slip outside the time stream and travel backwards or ...
John Harper was a spy, or something similar, until a misjudgement prompted his shadowy employers to exile him to a ...
Jazz doesn’t like herself very much. If you saw how pretty she is, how well she does at school and the friends she ...
Poor Aissa. Her life is one tragic decision and sad rejection after another, just because she wasn’t born perfect. ...
My heart sank as I began this novel when I realised that the story was not only set in 1746 but it was also ...
Don’t be put off by the title of this book if you have only sons. And it isn’t another how-to book about talented, ...
Every Saturday the travel supplements in the newspapers try to whip up a lather of enthusiasm about exotic ...
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