I’d like to ask you to join me for the oddest reading event of my career. Oxfam are holding a twenty-four hour readathon for their Bookfest. It’s on Monday, the 5th of July, and I’m reading at 10:30pm. Drinks before are recommended. It’s at the Oxfam flagship bookstore at 91 Marylebone High Street W1D 4RB.
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Archive for June, 2010
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Monday night just got a whole lot cooler
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Everyone is Bret Easton Ellis
I was just reading Spotify’s profile of Plan B and here’s the opening line: “An East London raconteur with an ability to write in a horrifying first-person narrative (similar to Bret Easton Ellis),”
Has B.E.E just become shorthand for shocking, violent prose?
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Weekend with a killer
I spent the bank holiday weekend with a Texan killer from the fifties. After watching the intensely claustrophobic trailers for Michael Winterbottom’s adaptation of Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me I ran to Foyles to read the book.
The novel slips inside the head of small town Sherriff and calculating killer, Lou Ford. […]