The Literary Obsessive
Eleanor Anstruther, Elissa Altman, Simon K Jones, Kimberly Warner, Vicki Lesley, Bridget Young, Eve Chase, Geraint AndersonPeople, books, me; The Literary Obsessive charts that which catches my eye.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 811 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 10 days ago |
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The Stories We Tell
- I will never belong (in my family). I will always be shut out and rejected.
I’ve been listening to Tara Brach (god I love her) and thinking about the stories we tell and the importance of saying them out loud.
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You're Not Alone
So the story goes I danced on his feet. Did I? There comes a point in childhood tales when fact and fiction merge. They are flash cards; nothing before, nothing after. I remember a room full of adults, I remember light brown brogues, the pa...
Magnificence
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He came to the door looking for the key to the electrics box. Actually I heard the ship’s bell clang on the gate and looked out through michaelmas daisies to see legs and a body moving through long grass s...
Hello Frightened Child
The Obsessive Diary
It’s the sudden rescue, this catapult into fame. The imagined joy of overnight success, and then she published this piece and everything changed - a childhood craving masquerading as adult happening.
Double Spiral
I can’t read anything since.
My eye slips over other people’s words like butter, as if they are coated, I cannot stick.
It is a double spiral: no matter where you start, as long as you circle to the same place it will make sense. I unde...
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A PERFECT EXPLANATION (Salt Books) A MEMOIR IN 65 POSTCARDS & THE RECOVERY DIARIES (Troubador) IN JUDGEMENT OF OTHERS (Troubador) FALLOUT (Empress Editions) - rep'd by Jenny Savill ANA
Elissa Altman is the award-winning author of PERMISSION: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create (GODINE), and memoirs Motherland, Treyf, and Poor Man's Feast. Her new book, WHERE YOU USED TO BE, is forthcoming from Godine.
Writing and publishing serial fiction for over 10 years. Helping people write more. I wrote a weekly scifi/fantasy/crime serial here for over 4 years. Comms Manager at Creative PEC. European. Based in Norwich.
Founder and director of Unfixed—a multi-media company that explores how adversity can broaden our definition of what it means to live a “good life.”
Director of 'The Atom: A Love Affair' (Netflix/Disney+). Host of 'The Film Thread' film club. Casting my documentary filmmaker's curious eye on life, work & films. Autism advocate & parent, living by the seaside & trying not to spill my coffee☕️
When your child is behind bars, you better be a tough mother. I write what others won’t— because silence protects the system, not the people.
Sunday Times bestselling author of The Secret Thread, The Midnight Hour, The Glass House and other novels. Garden lover. Old house botherer. Biscuit crumbs in the keyboard.
Renegade stockbroker, author of Cityboy, possible psychopath. Next book 'How to Con Friends and Manipulate People' out 2 July 2026
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