www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-... Wow! Here's a lovely interview I did did with @tylergore.bsky.social for the Washington Independent Review of Books, all about my book Spine. He squeezed a lot out. I was a tube of toothpaste between his expert thumb and forefinger.
I have a new website! It's your one-stop-shop for all things Higgins. Read about my books, look at my large, grainy, black and white face, read my thoughts, and the thoughts of the thinking people who think about me.
Step inside, love!
www.johnpatrickhiggins.com
I shall be venting hard.
Spine, is out now. It's been called "the funniest book of the year", but it's also an angry, visceral, and ultimately thankful meditation on mortality. With funny jokes.
It's a companion-piece to my previous book, Teeth. So if you enjoyed that, you'll ADORE this one.
Spine has thrilled the Gnome Appreciation society! Lovely review in which he notes I call Batman a dick, and have the reviewer chuckling so hard over soup-based antics he upsets his neighbour. Funniest book of the year! What? Just THIS year? I think we can go further than that.
www.popmatters.com/northern-ire... I'm back in Popmatters, with my book, "Fine", being quoted extensively in an article about Jan Carson. For the record, I LIKE Belfast. Great bunch of lads. It's the protagonist who doesn't understand its unique, bracing charm. So we're clear.
So you get fewer words on here now. But I have so much to say. I mean, I've got nothing RIGHT NOW, but in theory...yeah...
@patsycollins.bsky.social Thrilled my short story, "No Light In The Trees", is featured in Weird Horror number 10, just one of a coterie of curiosities contained therein.
Why not buy a copy? You will never sleep again. FACT.
Never sleep again in a GOOD WAY, obviously.
@undertow.bsky.social
I am thrilled to be able to share Anne Marie Hantho's beautiful cover to Spine, my new book, coming to your bookshelf this summer. A semi-sequel to Teeth, Spine sees me further cataloguing my failing body parts. What's next, you ask.
Probably best not to ask.
You do NOT want to know.
Dave Ross.
Sadly, Alice here does not represent my views.
Scythes Queens
That's how you sex up a dystopian future: a small, badly pointed brick wall front and centre of the action.
In the future, you gotta know where your trowel is.
Shelley Duvall wither iguana, Hasbro. She's adorable.
Detail of a Roman mosaic, 300-400AD. I think that's Romulus and Remus' lovely mum.
@popmatters.bsky.social - this is fabulous stuff!
www.popmatters.com/john-patrick... Review of "Fine" in Popmatters:
"Lines of action are as invisibly elegant and neatly crafted as any one of the writer’s beautiful sentences. Both gut-bruisingly funny and achingly sad. The line between the tragic and the comic is, of course, a fine one." Wow!
felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/01/18/f... Delightful review from the ever-discerning @gnomelord.bsky.social I've always liked gnomes, you know.
The sky is still blue, the clouds come and go, yet something is different.
RIP David Lynch.
xraylitmag.com/aug-stone-re... Fabulous review of Fine by Aug Stone in @xraylitmag.bsky.social All "wanking and The Smiths"? What am I? 15? Far from it. Far from it.
Saw Nosferatu...
She's my number one nun.
Kemp making me look bad in my own dream. Classic Gaz.
You don't get the use of many words on Bluesky, do you? I babble incontinently on every other platform, apparently. But look: two lines, and I've already spaffed half my allotted amount. Expect haikus.
Dreamed I was hired to teach Prince Harry to write songs for his album. Gary Kemp, also hired, instigated a radical splinter group, wearing a tin foil crown and refusing to cooperate. "You took my money," insisted the prince. "It's not your money," said Kemp, a modern Wat Tyler.
It was down. Briefly. Relax.
Today I am mostly going to attempt to build a website. I wrote my first novel using the caps lock for each capital letter because I didn't know about the shift key. That's the level of savvy I'm dealing with.
Still, I'm going to have a go at this. And the air will be blue with my luddite fury.
