In Episode 13, Tony talks with Stephen Marche about his new book On Writing and Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer. Tim tells us all about the  genius of  poet's EVA H.D. and her new release The Natural Hustle. Janet talks about The End of Mr. Y  by Scarlett Thomas and how it changed her reading ways. 

Stephen Marche - The Call of the Loon
https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the-call-of-the-loon/

Biblioasis Field Notes Series Link
https://www.biblioasis.com/product-category/field-notes/

The New Puritan Manifesto
1. Primarily storytellers, we are dedicated to the narrative form. 2. We are prose writers and recognise that prose is the dominant form of expression. For this reason we shun poetry and poetic licence in all its forms. 3. While acknowledging the value of genre fiction, whether classical or modern, we will always move towards new openings, rupturing existing genre expectations. 4. We believe in textual simplicity and vow to avoid all devices of voice: rhetoric, authorial asides. 5. In the name of clarity, we recognise the importance of temporal linearity and eschew flashbacks, dual temporal narratives and foreshadowing. 6. We believe in grammatical purity and avoid any elaborate punctuation. 7. We recognise that published works are also historical documents. As fragments of our time, all our texts are dated and set in the present day. 8. As faithful representations of the present, our texts will avoid all improbable or unknowable speculation about the past or the future. 9. We are moralists, so all texts feature a recognisable ethical reality. 10. Nevertheless, our aim is integrity of expression, above and beyond any commitment to form. (vii)