Readings: Vassar, Housing Works 24th February

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Housing Works

A couple of upcoming events: I'll be reading at Vassar College on 15th February as a guest of Amitava Kumar. On 24th February I'll be reading at a Bookforum magazine event with Mary Gaitskill and Ed Park.

Posted on February 2nd, 2010

The Culture House (2009)

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 I have a short story in this week's New Statesman. It's called The Culture House

Posted on December 30th, 2009

Mute Post-Crunch Fiction Special (2009)

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the future

Mute magazine has published a special edition featuring some fictional futurism.

Posted on December 23rd, 2009

Happy New Decade: Are you (still) Afraid? (2004, 2009)

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Notting Hill Gate

As we head towards the new year and every media outlet on the planet compiles lists of definitive this and that, I found this 2004 piece on my hard drive, which seems to do a reasonable decade-summarising job. It was a column for Arena magazine. I'm not sure they printed it, though I remember they took my picture on the concourse at Waterloo station.

Posted on December 14th, 2009

Red White Red: The films of Michael Haneke (2009)

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Funny Games

“…seriously working upon the past, that is, through a lucid consciousness breaking its power to fascinate…”   - Theodor Adorno - The Meaning of Working Through the Past

“I want to rape my spectators into autonomy.” – Michael Haneke

Posted on October 30th, 2009

Smoke and Mirrors: A Review of Jonathan Lethem's 'Chronic City'

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Chronic City (marijuana arrests)

My review of Jonathan Lethem's 2009 novel in Bookforum:

Posted on October 24th, 2009
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