Author: Joann Fuller

I bought my copy of John Williams’s Stoner for R40 at a secondhand shop, the kind of place where the

I own two copies of Crime and Punishment. One is Constance Garnett’s, published by Heinemann in 1914, in a paperback

What Is Literary Fiction (And Why the Definition Matters) I once told a friend I was reading a literary novel

How Independent Writers Get Paid Across Borders I sold my first chapbook to a reader in Sweden and thought the

I make chapbooks. Small runs, 40 to 60 pages, hand-folded, sewn one evening a week at the kitchen table while

I came to Southern African fiction late, and by accident. A friend left a Bessie Head novel at my flat,

I used to finish every book I started. I wore it like a virtue. Somewhere around 400 books in, I

For years I thought a writer’s notebook was a prop. Something you photographed on a café table next to a

There is a shelf in my study I think of as the difficult shelf. It holds maybe 20 books, and