A selection of recent and related papers either written for conferences or published in literary and arts journals and newspapers appear here, under assorted headings.
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How Muriel Spark Came Home to Scotland – By Kirsty Gunn, for the New Yorker
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From Dante to I Love Dick: top 10 books about unrequited love – By Kirsty Gunn, for the Guardian.
 - On Form – For The Future of the Novel, International Writers Conference, Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2012 (film and blog and Book ref)
 - On Style and Content – For The Futire of the Novel, International Writers Conference, Melbourne Literary Festival, 2014 (film)
 - Introduction to “Reality and Dreams”, by Muriel Spark, Polygon, 2018
 - Katherine Mansfield for London review of Books, 2013
 - The power of a sentence – for Virginia Woolf Interational Conference, Glasgow, June 2012
 - Katherine Mansfield as influence – for Katherine Mansfield International Conference, Birkbeck, 2008
 - Domesticity in Literature – Lyon
 - Jane Anne Phillips for London Review of Books
 
General Writing:
A range of general interest pieces are published in a range of magazines and newspapers, some examples follow here:
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Controlling agenda threatens Scotland’s culture, The Scotsman
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Is this the Country we Love?, The Scotman
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How the Laundry Basket Squeaked, London Review of Books
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Veering Wildly, London Review of Books