#salt path

[myjetpack]

My cartoon for this weekend’s Guardian Books

[remedialpotions42]

Dear Diary,

today my heart leapt when Gillian Anderson *existed* in my vicinity.

[rherlotshadow]

Coast path: light and shadow.

[forestscorpion]

The Salt path, The coastal path, Devon, Cornwall, Lands End and thence on to the Severn Estuary.

[wonderfrancis]

How Much Truth Is Enough? Reflecting on Raynor Winn’s Response to The Observer

In the wake of The Observer’s recent exposé and the resulting public fallout, Raynor Winn has published a detailed and impassioned defence of The Salt Path, and by extension, her entire literary persona. Her statement—poignant, clarifying, yet also emotionally fraught—deserves careful attention. But for those of us who care deeply about the ethics of memoir, her account raises important…

How Much Truth Is Enough? Reflecting on Raynor Winn’s Response to The Observer

[danascully77]

[remedialpotions42]

I had posted about how in Munich somebody had given Gillian a Maine-Shirt to sign, which made us all cackle - finally there’s a video! 😍 Credit is selina.ehm on Insta. And here's my original posting about Gillian at Filmfest Munich: https://www.tumblr.com/remedialpotions42/787960857752715264/i-went-to-see-gillian-anderson-at-filmfest-munich

[s-sonneveld]

The Salt Path author published earlier book under alias, despite debut claims

Raynor Winn’s lawyers have confirmed she published a previous book in 2012, years before the memoir that won a £10,000 prize for debut write

How many times do we have to do this, where someone writes an acclaimed memoir and then backtracks saying they made it up? Just write fiction.