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“Somehow things happened, odd things, when Muriel was around,” recalled her friend Shirley Hazzard. “Everything that happened to Muriel,” according to … Barbara Epler, “had been foreseen”, usually in her books themselves.
—The unnerving vision of Muriel Spark
13/18
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“It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians.”
—extracts from A GOOD COMB, by Muriel Spark, ed. Penelope Jardine – via @literaryhub
14/18
https://lithub.com/a-few-words-of-indispensible-advice-from-muriel-spark/
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“knowing the challenges Spark overcame makes me doubly grateful for her”
Writing for the Royal Literary Fund, Lauren J. Joseph reflects on a quality many writers have to develop – the “sheer bloody-mindedness” Spark had in spades
15/18
https://www.rlf.org.uk/posts/the-relentless-brilliance-of-muriel-spark/
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AFTERWORDS: Muriel Spark
“One’s prime is elusive…”
—On BBC Sounds: writers Ian Rankin & Zoë Strachan discuss Muriel Spark’s life & work with National Library of Scotland curator Colin McIlroy, & Spark’s friend & memoirist, Alan Taylor
16/18
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018238
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THE CROOKED DIVIDEND
Essays on Muriel Spark
ed. Gerard Carruthers & Helen Stoddart
Muriel Spark in British culture; the influence of Scottish literary traditions on her work; how she explores gender, religion, politics; & more
Also online via Project MUSE
17/18
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/the-crooked-dividend/
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