Gnome essays

(most recent first)

How do we value the future? Oliver Hyams learns lessons from the Stern Review.

Biodiversity on the rocks: what’s a conservationist to do? By Alex Cagan

Is there anybody in there? Jonathan Webb reports from science’s erstwhile final frontier: consciousness.

Lights, Camera, Inaction: public debates and the erosion of authentic engagement. By Abigail Jones

Lies of the Land: Edward Randell explores the art of mapping

The Strange Case of the Giant Rat of Sumatra: Eley Williams investigates a piece of Sherlockian mischief

The Player, Played: gaming comes of age. By Hugh Trimble

Not Being Personal Or Anything… By Andrew Naughtie

When the ‘little monkey’ becomes the organ-grinder. Roberta Klimt on Alan Bennett’s The Habit of Art.

How To Sound Good Naked: in search of the break-up album’s secret formula. By Edward Randell

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This section of the site will keep growing, with pieces by the most talented young writers we know being added on a weekly basis. If you’d like to have a go at writing something for gnome, let us know.

Posted 2 years ago Notes

Notes:

About:

A gnome is:

a) a maxim which imparts knowledge, often taught to the young
b) a legendary dwarf

gnome online is:

Ossie Froggatt-Smith works 9-5 as an editor and sometimes a journalist. He studied Byzantium and still thinks about it all the time. He manages gnome.

Edward Randell is a journalist. He sings in Paris with the Voice Messengers, and has written for the TLS and Jazzwise. He edits gnome.

Roberta Klimt spends a lot of time at the British Library, so much that she gets paid for it. She blogs and writes at gnome and the Oxford Left Review. She also studies medieval Italian literature.

Andrew Naughtie studies sociology. He lives in Bristol, but is moving to Chicago, Illinois! He blogs and writes at gnome.





At gnome, we get together with people and promote non-fiction writing because we think that:

a) young non-fiction writing is v v under-appreciated
b) writers are discouraged by brutal subs and celebrities

If you would like to:

a) suggest some useful links/blogs/events to gnome
b) write a non-fiction essay to be produced by gnome

we would love to hear it.

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