We caught up with Gwendoline Riley, author of First Love, to ask her about her workspace, and her writing process.
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The English novelist Gwendoline Riley's books My Phantoms and First Love are coming out with US publisher New York Review Books.
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James Wood reviews Gwendoline Riley's “First Love” and “My Phantoms,” which ruthlessly depict the fragile tedium of broken people who are...
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“My Phantoms” and “First Love” are harsher and yet more humane; they refuse the twin reliefs of romance and cynicism. As at the end of a Chekhov...
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In this way, My Phantoms and First Love function almost as a diptych, shining light upon and reflecting each other's concerns and questions. In...
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Gwendoline Riley's first two novels focus on singles in your area with disproportionate romantic fantasies.
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My Phantoms is Riley's seventh book in a career that began in her early 20s and has now stretched over almost two decades. Her novels are told...
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Through Bridget, Riley narrates large portions of the novel in the conditional tense, creating a routine out of Hen's behavior. Misfortunes...
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“My Phantoms” does focus on aging. It deals, in fact, with the unsaid, perhaps the unsayable. It plumbs the depths of the most terrifying...
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In 1980, the year before Elias Canetti won the Nobel Prize in Literature, Susan Sontag described him as a writer whose work is “confidently rooted in a...
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