Thomas Morris learned how to write by writing a horrible first book
Things I Learned Along the Way — Huck’s Fiftieth Issue Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we’ll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, writer Thomas Morris shares how it took him three years to write the book of his dreams. Then he scrapped it, sat down, and wrote the truth.
Written by: Huck HQ / Thomas Morris
Swimming with piranhas and other stories of survival, by Dave Eggers
This is GORDITOS — A short story about a bunch of reprobates on a riverboat tour down the Amazon by San Francisco-based author Dave Eggers.
Written by: Dave Eggers
Don't like what's out there? STRIKE! Magazine explain how to go it alone
Things I Learned Along the Way — Huck’s Fiftieth Anniversary Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we’ll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, STRIKE! Magazine demonstrate what to do when you're fucked off with the way things are: launch a subversive magazine and started exploring other planets.
Written by: Huck HQ / STRIKE!
How Nell Zink threw insecurities aside to launch her literary career
Things I Learned Along the Way — Huck’s Fiftieth Anniversary Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we’ll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, Nell Zink explains how she found the confidence to kick off a sparkling literary career in her fifties.
Written by: Huck HQ / Shelley Jones
Huck's Fiftieth Issue Special out now!
Launch party at our 71a gallery — Come and celebrate the release of Huck's Fiftieth Issue Special with us on Thursday May 14 at 71a.
Written by: HUCK HQ
In the mind of Max Porter, the journey is the thing
Things I Learned Along the Way — Huck's Fiftieth Anniversary Special collects lessons learned and creative advice from fifty of the most inspiring people we know. Each day we'll be sharing a new excerpt from the magazine. Today, Granta Books senior editor Max Cooper explains why you should "never tear a page out of your sketchbook..."
Written by: Max Porter
The Man Booker Prize winners you need to know
Which one will you read next? — As the Man Booker Prize announces the winner of its 2015 International Award, we flick back through the award's prestigious archives.
Written by: Alex Robert Ross
Inspiring zines to brighten up your blue Mondays
Indie media from Blue Monday Press — Independent arts distributor Blue Monday Press curates some visual treats from their archives ahead of their creative takeover in Brighton this week.
Written by: Shelley Jones/Ben Gore
Best new books of the month
April 2015 in words — Johnny Depp's tattooist in Rio, Johnny Rotten's hard London days, a melancholy man in a spooky castle and a personal punk history.
Written by: Shelley Jones
Former Harry Potter star reveals all in an intimate diary of doodles
Love Sick by Jessie Cave — Jessie Cave documents the last four years of her life in doodles to be released in a new book Love Sick.
Written by: Robin Nierynck
