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Writer s blockdown: after a year inside, novelists are struggling to write
A spell at home is surely a good opportunity to write, so why are so many authors struggling? William Sutcliffe, Linda Grant and more share how the pandemic has stifled their imaginations
Drab days … ‘Last night I had a dream about unloading the dishwasher.’ Photograph: Ben Welsh/Getty Images
Drab days … ‘Last night I had a dream about unloading the dishwasher.’ Photograph: Ben Welsh/Getty Images
Fri 19 Feb 2021 07.00 EST
In early February, after a month of lockdown, William Sutcliffe wrote on Twitter: “I have been a professional writer for more than twenty years. I have made my living from the resource of my imagination. Last night I had a dream about unloading the dishwasher.”
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Netflix’s latest true crime series outlines the violent murders committed by “The Ripper” but not the infamous Jack, who terrorized London in the Victorian era. The new four part documentary tells the story of the Yorkshire Ripper, a British murderer who killed at least 13 women and attacked many more between 1975 and 1980 in Northern England. The Netflix documentary recounts the horrific crimes through interviews with investigators, survivors, journalists, and the families of victims.
Who was the Yorkshire Ripper?
The Yorkshire Ripper was named Peter William Sutcliffe (also known as Peter William Coonan), and was working as a truck driver in the period he committed the majority of his attacks. He targeted mainly sex workers in red-light districts and low income neighborhoods, brutally attacking, mutilating, and oftentimes murdering women for years while he evaded arrest. Over the course of the five year police investigation, Sutcliffe was brought in nine time
deal with childhood illness – is it a subject that’s particularly on your mind?
It’s an interesting subject because it’s a painful subject. Losing a child is one of the most visceral fears for parents, isn’t it? I’ve always been really interested in Hamnet and why he’s so overlooked and forgotten by history.
The book also brings Shakespeare’s wife to the fore.
It’s not just that she is [usually] given no agency – there’s so much hostility and misogyny towards her. The narrative is that she was illiterate, that she was a peasant, that he hated her, that she forced him into marriage. I got really, really sort of angry about the way she’d been treated. People will always invoke the will [Shakespeare only left her “his second-best bed with the furniture”], but it’s a very complicated, dry document. Well, I’ll raise you the fact that when he retired, he could have lived anywhere. He was incredibly wealthy but he chose to go back and spend his retirement
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