adrian monck

We are lucky enough to have Doris Lessing on the advisory board of our Creative Writing MA (the novels bit). Doris has got into trouble recently on the blogosphere. Put it aside. Read her magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech – a wonderful piece of writing. And wisdom. Yes, it does come with age for some…

Mike Rosenblum, the godfather of video journalism, has an interesting post on Facebook and its potential use by intelligence agencies as a means of mapping networks. I’m sure he doesn’t quite mean to go as far as this quote suggests, but you will get his drift: A few days ago, I typed in the name…

Feel like you’re living in Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year or Don DeLillo’s Libra? On the back of reviewing Gordon Burns’ novel that, according to the blurb: has taken the events from this bleak summer and turned them into an utterly unique novel about the way news is made, and how the media…