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Make Love Our Currency
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The Guardian | February 2012
The money's gone, so it is time to save Valentine's Day from false cupids with 'for sale' signs, and reclaim love as the proper basis for all that we do.
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All I Know About Gertrude Stein
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Granta | June 2011
In 1907 a woman from San Francisco named Alice B. Toklas arrived in Paris. She was going to meet a fellow American living there already. She was excited because she’d heard a lot about Gertrude Stein.
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Six Feet Under With Your Literary Heroes
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The Times | May 2011
Interviewing your favourite author is always a challenge, but even more so when he or she has been dead for years.
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The Kids Are All Right Makes Gay the New Normal
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The Times | September 2010
The surprise film success of the year is about gay mums. Have we finally arrived at a time when lesbians are no longer weird.
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Once Upon a Shop
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The Observer | June 2010
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Can You Move Diagonally?
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The Times | August 2009
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.
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Down and Out in Paris
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The Guardian | March 2009
For half a century, a crowded bookshop on the Left Bank has offered food and a bed to penniless authors - the only rule is that they read a book a day. Jeanette Winterson revisits Shakespeare and Company.
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Shafts of Sunlight
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The Guardian | November 2008
Poetry is not merely a luxury for the middle classes — it offers a tough language for those with hard lives. As a TS Eliot festival opens in London, Jeanette Winterson remembers how his poems helped her through her troubled teenage years.
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Desire: A Dangerous Flame
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The Independent | September 2008
We think of it as an irresistible force – yet we are so in thrall to it that we have ceased to respect it. Jeanette Winterson looks at the power of desire.
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Glyndebourne
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The Independent | May 2006