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WINTER 2011/12
I didn’t intend for this issue to have a theme, but the more I look at it the more I realise that a particular word keeps cropping up. And the word is ‘truth’. Perhaps it’s because as I started to commission the features I was also finally embarking on reading Don Quixote, about a man unable to discriminate between fiction and reality in a book which looks at the Aristotelian distinction between historical and poetic truth and then nicely (and hilariously) blurs the boundaries.
This issue’s interview subject, Gillian Slovo, seeks truth in memoir and documentary as well as fiction. Novelist Monique Roffey, advising on writing a sex scene, believes that even in fiction we should keep sex ‘real’. And I’ve found that writing the truth about myself, while sometimes getting me into trouble, is something I’ve never regretted. Happy Christmas to all Mslexia readers.
Linda Kelsey, Guest Editor.
LINDA KELSEY
Linda Kelsey worked for over 30 years in magazine publishing, starting as a typist on Good Housekeeping, before going on to edit Cosmopolitan and She, and twice being awarded Magazine Editor Of The Year. Since going freelance almost a decade ago she has written three novels, been a columnist for the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph and recently started a degree at Birkbeck, having dropped out from university first time around.
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