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In Defence of Prizes is the name of our guest article this week, written by the administrator of The Orwell Prize and in complete contrast to this thoughtful and insightful article is the nonsense that is The Lone Ranger who helps out Lily Cole with writing sex scenes. I am wondering why I took him on. Still we can learn from our elders right? And part 1 of our latest interview appears this week with Nathan Curnow about his book The Ghost Poetry Project.

Coming next month! Our author advent - each day up to Christmas an author featured at the magazine over the last few years tells us about their favourite read of 2009. It's been fun doing it and includes authors like Iain Banks, Marina Lewycka and Julian Barnes!

Mike

Editor

Issue 17 on sale now - Includes interviews with Emili Rosales and Gary Murning.