Land of Our Fathers

Text of the day: “I might even show you my photograph album.”

Text of the day: “I mean, I mean that the basic feature of my character is an anxiety to please people and to do what they want, which leads to, that is, which amounts to a passion…

Text of the day: “I gets up in the morning, bake me face in half a ton o’slap.”

Last week, Chris Wilkinson’s regular Guardian blog, Noises Off, asked, “When is a new writer not a new writer?”