A.L. Kennedy
A.L. Kennedy is the author of novels, short stories and nonfiction. Her novel Everything You Need (Vintage) and a non-fiction book On Bullfighting (Yellow Jersey Press/ Anchor Books) were published in 1999. She was one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 1993.
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First Sentence: A.L. Kennedy
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‘I have never seen anyone eat figs in the street and feel I am unsurprised.’
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Introducing Tatiana Salem Levy
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Tatiana Salem Levy is introduced by previous double Best of Young British Novelist, A.L. Kennedy.
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Ordinary Light
Brad Feuerhelm & A.L. Kennedy
‘Why do I look? Why have I always looked? Because I have.’
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Home: reflections for Anthony Shadid
Various Contributors
Photo by Nada Bakri. This week, Anthony Shadid’s memoir House of Stone – which tells...
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That Whole London Thing
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I could be moving to London. Maybe. In theory. I don’t know. I am currently...
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The End?: Writers respond to John Barth
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Photo by Kate Gibb \ Big Active. Since the appearance of his first book The...
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Insomnia
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Photo by Random Letters. Perhaps because I was born in the middle of the night...
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Podcast: A.L. Kennedy
John Freeman & A.L. Kennedy
A.L. Kennedy, twice selected as one of Granta’s Best Young Novelists, talks to Editor John...
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Labyrinths
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‘I was tempted to let the pages blow overboard and start again...But they have very stern laws about littering at sea.’
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Summer with my Grandmother (pt II)
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This is the second part A.L. Kennedy’s touching portrait of time spent in her grandmother’s...
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Summer with my Grandmother (pt I)
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Twice-Best Young British novelist A.L. Kennedy remembers days spent in her grandmother’s cabinet-making workshop, in...
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Story of My Life
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‘Story of my life – maybe – going to the dentist.’
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God and Me
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‘Faith: the greater it is, the more unsupported it must be’
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Room 536
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‘He has longish, yellowish, curly hair, which was, perhaps, cute at some time in his youth, but has thinned now into a wispy embarrassment. I can almost picture him, each evening, praying to be struck bald overnight. God has not, so far, been merciful.’
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A Blow to the Head
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‘I am looking for my dead grandfather in the British Library.’