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Not Waving but Drowning and Other Poems

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By Peter McDonald, Will Eaves, Stevie Smith
| Literary Review Verified
In ‘The Good-Morrow’, John Donne writes that love ‘makes one little room an everywhere’. Although Peter McDonald doesn’t aspire to encompass ‘everywhere’ in One Little Room, you’d be hard pressed to find another volume of contemporary poetry with such a wide range of references and variety in form and style.
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How creativity can be found in looking sideways at your goal

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By Will Eaves
| New Scientist Verified
There is a tendency among how-to enthusiasts to talk about creativity as if it had fixed objectives: things you know from the start will turn out to be novels, symphonies or paintings. Writers and musicians who have suffered the uncertainties of creation know that this is an unlikely prospectus. If they have to talk about it at all, they cite “artistic vision” and leave it at that. I think both these approaches are inadequate.
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History is in the Making

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By Will Eaves, Nikesh Shukla, Justin Marozzi, George Szirtes
| rsliterature.org
For our new anthology, History is in the Making, we asked 20 of our current Fellows to tell us about writers from the last 200 years – from when the RSL was founded in 1820 to now – who they would like to have seen nominated for an RSL Fellowship. They’ve written letters to those writers, thought about why they weren’t celebrated by the RSL when they were alive, and shared with you – their readers – why you should be reading them too.
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Murmur by Will Eaves

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By Will Eaves
| canongate.co.uk
Available as Paperback, eBook Murmur evokes the extraordinary life of Alan Turing, the beauty and sorrows of love, and the nature of consciousness.
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Wellcome Book Prize announces 2019 shortlist

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By Arnold Thomas Fanning, Will Eaves, Sarah Krasnostein
| wellcomebookprize.org
Shortlist revealed for 10th anniversary of the Wellcome Book Prize. The shortlist for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize is announced today, Tuesday 19 March, celebrating the best new books that illuminate the many ways that health, medicine and illness touch our lives.
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Wellcome Book Prize 2019 Shortlist Announced

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By Sandeep Jauhar, Rick Edwards, Arnold Thomas Fanning, Will Eaves
| welldoing.org Verified
The Wellcome Book Prize celebrates works of fiction and non-fiction that touch on themes of health, illness, science, and medicine 2019's shortlist has just been announced, with works covering gender, mental health, trauma, and death The shortlist for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize is announced today, Tuesday 19 March, celebrating the best new books that illuminate the many ways that health, medicine and illness touch our lives.
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Murmur

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By Will Eaves
| blpress.org
184 pages Trade Paper List Price US $16.99 ISBN: 9781942658641 Synopsis In Murmur, a hallucinatory masterwork, Will Eaves invites us into the brilliant mind of Alec Pryor, a character inspired by Alan Turing. Turing, father of artificial intelligence and pioneer of radical new techniques to break the Nazi Enigma cipher during World War II, was later persecuted by the British state for “gross indecency with another male” and forced to undergo chemical castration.
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2015-03-09 - The New Yorker

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By Stephen King, James Surowiecki Verified, John Donohue, Richard Brody Verified, Silvia Killingsworth Verified, Jeffrey Toobin Verified, Kathryn Schulz Verified, Kelefa Sanneh Verified, Hilton Als Verified, Marina Harss, Peter Hessler, Anthony Lane Verified, Eric Schlosser, Emily Nussbaum, Michael Schulman Verified, Reeves Wiedeman Verified, Andrea K. Scott, Russell Platt, Lizzie Widdicombe Verified, John Seabrook Verified, Philip Levine, Paul Rudnick, John McPhee, Will Eaves, Saul Leiter
| The New Yorker Verified
Discover more stories from nine decades of The New Yorker, from classic Profiles to short fiction—with new favorites highlighted every week. Explore issues from February 21, 1925, to this week.
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A Ship’s Whistle

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By Will Eaves
| The New Yorker Verified
Years passed and I received no letter with the word “trombone.” The distant cousins wrote, offered their shriller sympathies. “What’s wrong with us?” Nothing I knew. Plugboard and isinglass, grimoire and cwm, friends all. Still I felt horribly alone. Until one day it dropped through roundel light onto the mat. I was tearing my dictionaries of hope—who, why, and what— apart when it sounded, that note pressing for home. Trombone.
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