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 the 'Personal' Category
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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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Motherless Brooklyn
I’ve just started reading Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn – about a detective with Tourette Syndrome. I cannot put it down. That’s the sign of a good book – in any genre. I just found out it’s being adapted into a film written and directed by Ed Norton.
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Amy Tan
I’ve been reading The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. It’s about as far away from my genre of writing as possible, yet I’ve learnt so much from the writing.
I came across the novel after reading an extract in an American short story collection. While the book was an American bestseller in the late eighties, […] -
Books
Over Christmas I read Once Again, To Zelda a collection of essays on dedications in novels. The stories behind the dedications were enthralling but left me incredibly angry.
I don’t want to know one of my childhood heroes may have slept with her father (note, I’m not referring to Anais Nin – I don’t think she […] -
New Project
I’m working on a new project, entitled Personal. It’s a collection of short stories that all begin with a personal ad, then go on to reveal truths behind the advertisers or the respondents.
While I’ve drafted just over half of the adverts, I’m keen to hear from anyone with either an interesting advert or an […] -
Amy Poehler’s Advice To Girls
See 1:25 from Jezebel
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All this time I was working on my career…
Contexts.org posted this a few days ago. I’ve clearly been misdirecting my efforts.
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The Draft
I had a friend who used to say something wasn’t real until you could bite into it. I’m looking forward to printing out a completed working draft of my manuscript and then chomping down on the cheap copy paper this weekend.
It’s amazing how you can go from this: a blurry short of a series of […] -
Eve Ensler’s latest monologue