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formalism and new narrative jostle for position with cut-ups

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His arresting imagination is equally at home with the songs of Elvis Costello and Jacques Brel

Just You and the Page Michael O'Dea Did you know that anJust You and the Page opens in 1971, with the dramatist Michael Wall hammering out his plays on a portable typewriter. It concludes in 2020, when the novelist and academic Josie Barnard is teaching students to compose novels on Instagram. Between them are Booker prize winners; a poet whose life was changed by a profound religious conversion; a translator for whom Pushkin has meant everything; a distinguished environmental journalist; a famous diarist;