Lucy Ellmann
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10, May, 2023 @11:00 AM
‘You think wrong!’: top 10 rants in literature
Some distrust kvetching in print, but writers from Shakespeare to Valerie Solanas show there’s nothing wrong with constructive – and even destructive – criticism
Lucy Ellmann
25, Aug, 2021 @11:00 AM
On my radar: Lucy Ellmann’s cultural highlights
The prize-winning author of Ducks, Newburyport on Richard Pryor, her favourite new fiction – and her love of fox cubs
Lucy Ellmann
10, Jul, 2021 @4:30 AM
Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann review – a funny and furious womanifesto
The novelist rails against everything from Agatha Christie to the US Capitol attack – and, above all, men – in her joyously eclectic essay collection
Hephzibah Anderson
28, Jun, 2021 @10:00 AM
Lucy Ellmann lands James Tait Black prize, 38 years after her father's win
The mostly single-sentence novel Ducks, Newburyport scoops £10,000 award for its piercing portrait of Trump’s America
Sian Cain
21, Aug, 2020 @2:30 PM
Orwell prize for fiction shortlist replays 2019 Booker prize contest
Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other will vie with Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport for political writing award
Alison Flood
21, May, 2020 @11:03 AM
I wish more people would read ... Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
Yes, it is very long. But Ellmann’s story mixes profundity with everyday madness in a way that will leave you wanting even more
Ammar Kalia
06, May, 2020 @8:00 AM
'Biography' of Nineteen Eighty-Four leads Orwell prize longlist
Dorian Lynskey’s The Ministry of Truth is among the contenders for the political writing award named after the dystopian classic’s author
Alison Flood
08, Apr, 2020 @11:14 AM
‘Surreal immediacy’: how a 1,000-page novel became a 45-hour audiobook
Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport has attracted much attention for its length, but one publisher believes the spoken word might be its perfect medium
Laura Snapes
28, Feb, 2020 @2:00 PM
Lucy Ellmann: ‘We need to raise the level of discourse’
The author of the prize-winning Ducks, Newburyport on why she prefers books written before Hiroshima
Sian Cain
07, Dec, 2019 @6:00 PM
One long sentence, 1,000 pages: Lucy Ellmann 'masterpiece' wins Goldsmiths prize
Ducks, Newburyport wins £10,000 prize for fiction that ‘breaks the mould’ of the novel, a month after missing out on the Booker
Alison Flood
13, Nov, 2019 @8:00 PM
Booker prize shortlist 2019: who to put your money on
Who will win the Booker prize this year?
Alex Preston
13, Oct, 2019 @10:00 AM
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