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An arts journal dedicated to publishing excellent literature on and by under-represented artists from around the world.

Music & Literature is a charitable organization devoted to publishing excellent new literature on and by under-represented artists from around the world. Each issue of Music & Literature assembles an international group of critics and writers in celebration of three featured artists whose work has yet to reach its deserved audience.

21/04/2022

Pay attention! For the drama of Emergency teeters there, with the reader, and our decision whether or not to engage, to act. In the end it’s up to us. For the call to attend to this world housed within the pages of a book is surely a call to attend to the larger world, a warning to be heeded as flames silently lick the final pages, “pressuring anything living to get out of there.”

— Daisy Hildyard’s “Emergency” blends a child’s intent observations of her native Yorkshire with her adult self’s musings on life in coronavirus quarantine:

“I was raised in rural Yorkshire … I still have a deep feeling, which dates from my childhood, that you shouldn’t waste anything, especially words”—the matter-of-fact tone set by this phrase from Daisy Hildyard’s previous Fitzcarraldo-published book, The Second Body , glides, ...

01/02/2022

What is this sudden interest in imaginary architecture, all this writing about houses, real and desired? I feel as if our current lives—so fragmented, so virtual—must be responsible, that we are yearning for a home, though the reality is that home is an illusion, unstable and shifting.

— Our latest feature is a conversation in letters between Ayşegül Savaş and Amanda Dennis on reading, writing, Paris, and other spaces:

https://www.musicandliterature.org/features/2022/1/17/a-map-the-size-of-the-territory

The project was to resuscitate the letter form, on the topic of how our first novels engage with the urban space of Paris, where we both live and work. The letters took on a life and direction of their own, as we found our way into a conversation about the writing life and the pleasures of making fi

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