Lizzie Mackarel, Author at Bright Wall/Dark Room

JoinedSeptember 27, 2023

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Lizzie Mackarel is a writer, PR consultant and reformed quiz show contestant. Her work has appeared in Polyester, BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking, and a press release near you. She lives in London.

Didn’t I Do It For You?

Lizzie Mackarel·

Issue 133: Heartbreakers

What does it mean to love someone who pursues you as an object? Is it only ever a delusion to imagine that such love can be reciprocal? If Shopgirl works at all as a story about doomed love, fated but not feted, it depends on the answer to those questions.

The Folks Who Live(d) on the Hill: Of Time and the City

Lizzie Mackarel·

Issue 123: Nostalgia

Terence Davies's Of Time and the City is about the most desperate and profound longing, that impossible desire to return to something intangible—to have known then what we know now, and in the process save something of ourselves.