Literature – Jade Angeles Fitton

Article in World of Interiors

jadeangelesfitton — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:59:28 +0000

There has been woefully little time for writing articles the past year or so and I’m utterly delighted to be stepping back into the fray through the hallowed halls of world of interiors ‘Object Lesson’. We’re anticipating my season of all things meteoric with what are described as ‘the shooting stars’ of Vita Sackville-West’s garden at Sissinghurst, her irises.

This is a meditation one species in particular, the Three Oaks iris, a bright star of a plant, a total trip, and nigh-on impossible to get one’s hands on in the U.K. If you’re eager to see them, many of the irises return for a second bloom in September, which just happens to be when my next book, When The Sky Falls: A Human History of Shooting Stars, is published…

You can buy a copy of August’s World of Interiors here.

Contritbuting to ‘The Pub’

jadeangelesfitton — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:34:59 +0000

One of my favourite publications, The Fence, have a new, beautiful book out called The Pub, published by Penguin/Ebury Press: featuring the best, and the blurst, of British pubs. I was delighted to be asked to contribute, and wrote about one of my favourite pubs down in Devon, that I’ve been going to my whole life (mentioned in Hermit – it was the pub with all the mummers).

The pub is available here.

Feature For Literary Review

jadeangelesfitton — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:53:24 +0000

Seen a lot of manifestos being published recently? Manifestos are in the zeitgeist again, but his time it’s different. For Literary Review I wrote about what commercialisation means for manifestos and their movements. How radical can something mass market be? Read online here.

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Guestbook Review in TLS

jadeangelesfitton — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 13:44:52 +0000

I’ve got a little review in the latest TLS of artist and writer Leanne Shapton’s Guestbook — a dead spooky collection of ghost stories for the 21st Century. Check it out …

If On A Winter’s Night A Computer ..

jadeangelesfitton — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 12:48:14 +0000

I wrote a piece for The Millions about how, in 1979, Italo Calvino predicted the AI author in one of his best-loved novels, and what the reality of that prediction now means for us writers, poets, journalists and translators, Can a machine ever compete in metaphysical matters? What happens to an author’s copyright when a machine learning algorithm “learns” from an author’s work? And what happens when something learns from only “good” works. Click here to read.