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Category Archives: review
Little Monsters
The first review of Little Monsters. And it’s a good one! You can read it here.
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Edward St Aubyn: On the Edge
Much as I admire the Some Hope trilogy and its sequel Mother’s Milk, this novel, written between the two, is an odd – and to my mind unsuccessful – book. It’s concerned with the adventures of a group of people … Continue reading
Posted in crank, review, writing
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John Updike: Terrorist
Incredibly, Terroristis the first Updike novel I’ve read (I know, I know…) and, on the heels of De Lillo’s disappointing Falling Man, with which it has several points in common, I found it a far better book. It takes on … Continue reading
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Books of the year
Picador asked me to write something about the books I’ve most enjoyed this year. I did. You can read it here.
Posted in picador, review, writing
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The Scent of Cinnamon (again)
Another small but perfectly-formed review of The Scent of Cinnamon, this time from the Oakland Tribune. You can read it here. It’s wonderful, as usual, to be mentioned in the same paragraph as Alice Munro, but I’m particularly pleased that … Continue reading
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Warwick Collins: Gents
Cottaging – the use of public lavatories for fugitive sexual encounters – can be thrilling, titillating, dangerous, delusory, exquisite, sordid, debasing, indescribably erotic, and all these things at once. I should know. I spent a brief summer over thirty years … Continue reading
Posted in gay, gents, race, review, warwick collins
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The Scent of Cinnamon: sixth review
Another review that takes a look at a few of the O. Henry Prize stories (including mine!) can be found here. It comes from Inside Bay Area.
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Keith Banner: The Smallest People Alive
This is an extraordinary book that finds its truths and lyricism in lives that seem to offer almost nothing. The stories are peopled by the clinically obese, retards, workers in dead-end jobs, the lonely, the handicapped: the smallest people alive. … Continue reading
Posted in gay, keith banner, new writing 15, review, story
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The Scent of Cinnamon: fifth review
This one comes from the Miami Sun Post and, once again, is less a review than an encouraging nod in my direction. And, once again, I’m delighted (though it’s a pity they have the name of the novel wrong. Just … Continue reading
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Schlock
I went to see the new Quentin Tarantino film last night with Sally. The two of us were alone in the cinema apart from a group of teenagers, mostly boys, nerdy types as QT must have been, who behaved in … Continue reading
Posted in art, cinema, review, sex, sexual fantasy
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