Monthly Archives: July 2008

This almond love

My thanks for this to Lally’s Alley (who got it from Terry Winch).

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Poet on fire escape

The best thing – indeed the only redeeming feature – of a snippy and essentially homophobic review in the New York Times of the new Selected Poems of Frank O’Hara (edited by Mark Ford) is this photograph, taken in 1958 … Continue reading

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(Anti-) conspiracy theorists swarm at harmless blog

The numbers of visitors to this blog increased exponentially yesterday. A wave of sudden interest in my new collection of stories, to be published by Salt in October? (Pre-ordering facilities available here.) Well, no. Nothing so flattering, or wise. The … Continue reading

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A piece of shit

A salutary piece by Anne Enright on how we love – and hate – what we write can be read here. Struggling with what is unlikely to be the final draft of my new novel, I feel what she says … Continue reading

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Good riddance to …

… Jesse Helms. Is he wearing lipstick in this photograph? Or did his mouth always look like a badly sliced tomato? “Just think about it – homosexuals, lesbians – disgusting people – marching in our streets, demanding all sorts of … Continue reading

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Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez

Police last night said the men might have died for the sake of two handheld games consoles.

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FAO interview

The following interview appeared in FAO In Touch, the in-house newsletter of the Food and Agriculture Organisation where I (and, coincidentally, Carol, the narrator of Little Monsters) work. FAO editor publishes critically acclaimed novel ‘I was in Turin and saw … Continue reading

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