As a website, Oddfish is now in its third incarnation: the first, from 1999 to 2004, focused on editorial consultancy; the second, from 2010 to 2020, charted Dr Greenberg’s research and teaching interests; and those posts remain here, for reference. Now, Oddfish returns to the business of providing editorial support to different authors and projects. New material will be added on an ad hoc basis.
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The Eurozone crisis sparked memories of the hard lessons learned in 1992 Prague: if Czechs and Slovaks were not going to have a common economic policy, all the logic pointed to separate currencies.
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A footbridge across Poland’s main east-west motorway brings home the geopolitics of Poland, a flat country with no natural defences, caught between two great powers. And now, our world feels very troubled again.
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Creativity is about acting as a shaping consciousness. There is beauty and pleasure if the story leaves spaces for the imagination, and asks questions about what the writer does and does not know.
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For people working on a book, an MA in Creative Writing is something to consider. It provides a structure, deadlines, support and feedback; the kind of sustained professional help that is hard to find.
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A round-up of instances that show the history of the Slow Journalism meme, with thoughts on the alchemy of of ideas, and the difficulty of pinning down ownership in the digital realm.
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