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Summer Reading (2010)

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Candida Hofer - Trinity College Library Dublin

 I read the same stuff on holiday as I do at any other time, but when the people from the Observer emailed they kept emphasizing that choices for their Summer reading section should be SUMMERY and LIGHT, as if the world would fall apart if anyone attempted to tax themselves on the beach, which made me want to recommend Anatomy of Melancholy or something.

Posted on July 4th, 2010

Imperial Bedrooms: Bret Easton Ellis (2010)

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Imperial Bedrooms

Early in Bret Easton Ellis’s bleak new novel, the narrator, Clay, a well-known writer, is negotiating a sexual transaction with a starlet who hopes he’ll put her in a movie. He’s suspicious that ‘Rain’ isn’t her real name. “Does it matter?” she asks.  Well,” Clay answers.

Posted on July 4th, 2010

Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present

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 I wrote about #foursquare, religious ecstasy, court masque, crying, money and the cult of Marina Abramovic for Mute magazine.

Posted on June 12th, 2010

Memories of the Decadence wins Puschart Prize

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Couture - The Romans of the Decadence

 My story, Memories of the Decadence, published most recently in Pen America #10, has won a Puschart Prize. Thanks to David Haglund and the editorial team at PEN for submitting it. 

Posted on May 5th, 2010

Writing on the Edge: MSF Anthology

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MSF

 Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières and Rizzoli have published an anthology called Writing on the Edge: Great Contemporary Writers On The Frontline of Crisis, "a collection of 14 first-hand accounts of life inside conflict zones where the international medical

Posted on April 20th, 2010

Looking back on New Labour (2010)

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 The Guardian has published a series of reflections by novelists on the New Labour era. Will Self, Sue Townsend, Peter Akinti, Andrew O'Hagan, Philip Pullman, Jonathan Coe, Helen Walsh and me. I'll post the full text of my contribution (it was slightly edited by the Guardian) soon. 

Posted on April 6th, 2010

Amitava Kumar on my visit to Vassar

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Vassar

 In the current issue of Caravan magazine, which is emerging as one of the best places to track developments in South Asian politics and culture, Amitava Kumar writes an account of our conversation at Vassar college

Posted on April 2nd, 2010

Mishima's Sword (2006)

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Mishima

On 25th November 1970, the Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, accompanied by a private army of extreme right wing students dressed in Ruritanian uniforms he’d commissioned from a well-known fashion designer, entered the Eastern Army Group Headquarters in Tokyo and took a senior general hostage.

Posted on February 25th, 2010

Liberalism, Censorship and the Chilling Effect

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Liddle

Index on Censorship asked me to blog about the campaign against Rod Liddle's possible appointment to the editorship of the Independent. A comment thread is already underway on the the Index Site:

Posted on January 22nd, 2010
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