'In a mad world only the mad are sane.' Until I looked it up, I hadn't the foggiest who said this originally (it was Akira Kurosawa) but remember how reassuring it felt when hearing it on Netflix. So too did walking past a sign in London yesterday that said, 'I'm falling through a world which makes no sense.' Only days earlier, Han Kang (2024 Nobel in Literature) had talked of two unsolvable riddles imprinted on her mind: 'how can humans be so violent, and how can humans be so sublime?'
The Bohemian Writers Club is a guerilla operation. It is an experiment in writing courageously, creatively, uncomfortably – based on the premise/promise that by varying our prose we may come to see the world more clearly. It is here that we promise to write thoughtfully, candidly, experimentally, beautifully about whatever it is which we have come into this world to say.
Here you'll find fiction and nonfiction, poetry and lyrics, voices familiar and foreign, stories that are silly and those written out of unimaginable pain. It is a space to give literary expression to our experience of being alive in a mad/maddening world. It hasn't a 'like' button and nor a 'comment' section, and really only one rule: don't be an asshole.
Why not give us a try, using anywhere from 6 to 6,000 words?
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Mark de Rond
Professor
Cambridge University
Cambridge
+44 7597 367867
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