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Scottish author Jim Murdoch discusses writing, his own and other authors, and muses at length about his fascination with the perversity of language. Veering from the nostalgic to the acerbic his blog will amuse anyone with a love of language.

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  • The Master and Margarita

    Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 22:01 in book review, russia, stalin, magic realism, bulgakov

    When God created light, the first shadow was born – tagline to the film Shadow Builder   This is a very long review so for those of you reading this in your lunch hour let me cut to the chase. The Master and Margarita can be reaso...

  • A genre-defying blog

    Posted on Sunday July 20th, 2008 at 03:39 in magic realism, slipstream, cross-genre

    Reality is above all else a variable and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before. —Margaret HalseyThe hard...