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‘Everything that wriggles’: The Muriel Spark Archives

By James Bailey ‘I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends’, wrote Spark in her 1992 autobiography, Curriculum Vitae. ‘The former outweigh the latter in terms of quantity’, she added. Spark wasn’t exaggerating; while the author was…

  • Kirsty Crosbie
  • April 1, 2021

Flawed Crystals: Muriel Spark’s Ways of Seeing

‘How do you do it? I am dazzled’, enthused Evelyn Waugh in a letter to Muriel Spark in 1960. Spark’s latest novel, The Bachelors, was hot off the press, and this, Waugh told her, was ‘the cleverest and most elegant…

  • Kirsty Crosbie
  • March 8, 2021

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