I don’t carry a torch for Shriver - the darker the place she is condemned to, the better - but her Spectator column does ask some of the right questions. Which are better considered through the exemplary AI-collaborative indie writing practice of Joanna Walsh (e.g Autobiology, Mis-Communication).
I’ll draft a proper reference but from FT magazine 28 Feb to 1 March / ie last weekend / K
Financial Times weekend mag / K
assume you saw this?
TOOTHPULL was longlisted for the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction prize tonight - thanks to everyone who’s encouraged and helped AAAARGH press and myself over the last few years!
open.substack.com/pub/therepub...
As mine, Mr Bean was translatable, even if the stereotypes it mobilised were what made it accessible outside the UK
yes, all over SE Asia from Mandalay to Ho Chi Minh Ville, Rowan Atkinson on market stalls, in cabs, on ferries, in cafes. It was odd… him and Man Utd.
a slide perhaps? a banana surf?
DAD issued!
1921
1921
for some reason Alfred Jarry crossed my mind when I saw Morland’s cartoon in today’s Times
a really impressive account of Linton Kwesi Johnson’s development politically and as a poet, the watershed of 1981 and the importance of John la Rose and New Beacon - though it really should have made more of Race Today, Railton Road, CLR James and Darcus Howe… but it’s a keeper of a piece
a really impressive account of LKJ’s development politically and as a poet, and the watershed of 1981 and the importance of John la Rose and New Beacon - tho should have made more of Race Today, Railton Road, CLR James and Darcus Howe… but it’s an impressive keeper of a piece
A seriously impressive review in the LRB which hasn’t sent me to the title, but headfirst back into the 73 hours of David Lynch’s ten movies and three series of Twin Peaks. I know Godard didn’t like him but Godard wasn’t always on point. The soundtracks are almost as good as JLG’s.
hmm. An accurate description, maybe. But would ethnic coding of bylines be something you’d approve of?
My thoughts on the remarkable fiction of Paul Griffiths in the latest issue of Exacting Clam
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18...
No longer Manga and Murakami. Prospect surveys the boom in fiction translated from Japanese. I guess I should take a look at Murata
Thinking, as always, I should read at least one I worked my way down the list. And then went back to the top. And then a second time also…
Thinking I should read at least one I worked through the list. And then started again….
thanks Rónán! appreciated
Many thanks! to Rónán Hession for his appreciation of TOOTHPULL in the Irish Times this weekend
I can’t help but read the latest Maggie Nelson as a flipside to Toothpull, my recent memoir of a troubled dentist. Pathemata, dis-Latined, is a Book of Suffering. Death is in the air. It’s a COVID era narrative. “Pain pretends urgency” she says, “one has to become cold-hearted to its entreaties.”
as i think (in fact hope) you aren’t likely to be readers of the remote right monthly The Critic,
here’s a kiss and tell feature you might otherwise miss - an author’s step by step account of the collapse of Unbound
I’m impressed and also disappointed that the centre right/FT appears to understand the contested and intricate links between literary form, imagination and politics better than the left.
Thank-you Will Davies for reviewing Toothpull of St Dunstan - the memoir of a Canterbury dentist tugging and plugging at the gate to the city for 700 years - in today’s Times Literary Supplement.