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‘This craving to go viral is tiresome’: the artists sick of the pressure to promote on social media

From Stewart Lee in his wolf costume to Werner Herzog’s big steak sizzle-up, artists are now under huge duress to ‘chase the algorithm’ and reach audiences. Many of them are hitting burnout – and hitting back

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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers review – a trip inside the frazzled mind of Klaus Kinski

The German actor’s real-life meltdown is the springboard for this compelling autofictional account, in which the author sets out to write about Kinski during lockdown

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Rare Singles by Benjamin Myers review – lost souls at a Scarborough soul weekender

A forgotten Chicago singer strikes up an unlikely bond with a Yorkshire supermarket worker in this deceptively simple tale of human connection

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Rare Singles by Benjamin Myers review – northern soul and second chances

Once again, the author of Cuddy develops a deep sense of place, for a story that takes joy in its characters and their passions

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Pat Barker and Benjamin Myers in conversation: ‘I’m absolutely intolerable when I’m not writing’

Ahead of new books by both, the two English novelists discuss their friendship, the baggage that comes with being labelled ‘northern writers’ and why the Krankies’ memoir is a must-read

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Durham may have culture, but it also has rising poverty and inequality

Letter: In the 1980s, 25% of children attending my children’s primary school had free school dinners. The number now is more than 50%, writes local GP Dr Martin Judson

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Durham in decline? Take another look, Benjamin Myers

Letters: Durham is a world heritage city and culture county that is changing fast, write Cllr Amanda Hopgood, Mary Kelly Foy MP and Prof Karen O’Brien

The Guardian - UK

For better and worse, Durham’s student population has an impact on locals

Letters: David Duell says growth in the ability to teach more students has not been paralleled with the ability to accommodate them; Alan Pearson has long lived next to students and enjoys it

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My home town: how Durham changed under Conservative rule

As Labour takes power for the first time in 14 years, Benjamin Myers describes the legacy of neglected health and education in the city he grew up in

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London literary life excludes northern writers, prize organisers say

Prejudice has meant authors from the north of England struggle to find publishers and their stories go unheard

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Fiction to look out for in 2024

The first great lockdown novel, new tales from David Nicholls, Sarah Perry and Percival Everett, and Rachel Kushner’s contender for the Booker… next year promises to be special

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Benjamin Myers wins 2023 Goldsmiths prize for ‘vital’ novel Cuddy

Award for mould-breaking fiction goes to multi-genre work – ‘part poetry, part electricity’ – retelling the story of Durham Cathedral

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A saint, a sinner and a sprog: Goldsmiths book prize shortlist announced

Six books are up for the award celebrating innovative fiction, including Benjamin Myers’ account of St Cuthbert and a ‘great trans novel’ set in a small northern town

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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in September

Writers, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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‘What we publish will stay with you’: inside a small but mighty literary hit factory

Bluemoose publishes no more than 10 books a year but Kevin Duffy knows how to pick a winner

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‘Definitely a lot busier’: TV show lures visitors to coin gang’s Yorkshire home

Associations with 18-century counterfeiters can be seen across Calderdale, where The Gallows Pole tourism has mainly been welcomed

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Cormac McCarthy remembered: ‘His work will sing down the centuries’

The celebrated US author of Blood Meridian, The Road and No Country for Old Men has died. Here, leading contemporaries and critics pay tribute to him

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The Week

The Gallows Pole review: Shane Meadows’ first foray into period drama

Benjamin Myers’ 2017 novel “The Gallows Pole” told the “true-life tale of the 18th century gang of coin clippers led by ‘King’ David Hartley, whose illegal work and attendant violence came to dominate Cragg Vale in West Yorkshire”, said Lucy Mangan in The Guardian. Now, it’s been turned into a…

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The week in TV: Succession; The Gallows Pole; Changing Ends; University Challenge – review

Succession bows out in Shakespearean style; Shane Meadows changes tack with a gobby, grubby period drama; Alan Carr meets his sitcom younger self; and a TV beast exits with a smile…

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The Gallows Pole review – Shane Meadows’s period drama is an absolute must-see

The director of This is England’s take on a novel about an 18th-century counterfeiting gang is funny, moving, shocking and totally compelling. He has effortlessly reinvented a whole genre

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Shane Meadows on his newfound love of period drama: ‘It’ll resonate with people in a way we didn’t even intend’

He made his name with violence-peppered working-class realism, but now the This is England creator is doing historical drama. We step inside his take on a brutal 18th-century gang

Evening Standard

Pagans, folk rock and no script: the making of The Gallows Pole, the BBC’s wacky new historical drama

Cult director Shane Meadows takes the helm to tell a uniquely Yorkshire story

Evening Standard

The Gallows Pole on BBC Two review: a three-hour galavant through Shane Meadows’ zany imagination

This Is England’s Shane Meadows reimagines one of Yorkshire’s most gripping tales

The Guardian - UK

Actor Michael Socha: ‘Did I fall in with the wrong people? No, I was the wrong people’

First cast by Shane Meadows, in This is England, Socha now stars in his latest, The Gallows Pole. He describes how acting saved him from a life of violence – and why he loves a madcap scheme

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