I’ve been reading quite a lot about literary minimalism as I embark on another draft of the novel. It’s been interesting to re-read early...
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by Matthew Henley | Feb 21, 2019
Over the last twelve months for nearly every waking moment I can spare when not working, I have been writing feverishly, first a feature-length...
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by Matthew Henley | Aug 3, 2017
I’m sitting here by candlelight, on a hot summer’s evening in Sarajevo. It’s been a hot day, well up in the thirties, and the night has...
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by Matthew Henley | Mar 10, 2017
Last night I sat in a semi-deserted cinema in Sarajevo watching ‘Paterson’. It’s a film by Jim Jarmush about a poet who drives a bus in...
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by Matthew Henley | Aug 12, 2016
I’ve spent the last two weeks in Vancouver, at the University of British Columbia, on the UBC summer writers’ residency. UBC is a huge...
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