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The Same Old Story? (opens the original)
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Been the usual excitement in much of the world this week in anticipation and subsequent discussion of the Booker Prize Longlist. Usually it passes me by and I’d be the last person to comment on it. Despite it’s clout as the ultimate in UK prestige literary prizes, I couldn’t give a trapeze-swinging toss for the Booker Prize. Whatever vestige of credibility it had left with me went right down the shitpan in 2019 when it was awarded to Margaret Atwood for being Margaret Atwood instead of to Lucy E
How To Get Keshed and Influence People (again) (opens the original)
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Greetings and salutations. I’m hanging fire with a couple of super-exciting updates while I wait for news about a couple of other things so I can do them all at once, but in the meantime here’s something to follow on from the recent online event with the great Heidi James. There was a question she asked that I never really answered, not because I didn’t want to, just cos I started answering it, then the chat wandered and we never came back to it and I thought afterwards it was a shame because (a
Burning Down the House (opens the original)
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[The original version of this essay on climate change was drafted in the summer of 2022 and first published in a UK Literary journal early in 2023. Please see the second half of my previous post for full details]Burning Down the House“Hubris: […..] excessive pride towards, or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis.” – The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable1989 was an eventful year for the people of this little planet. In March,
When Stu and Heidi Got Keshed (opens the original)
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I’m a little late posting this cos my mental and physical health are still in the fucking bin, but a couple of weeks ago the long-promised online event, in-depth, packed-with-spoilers Keshed event, hosted by the great Heidi James, finally happened. It was a truly special night, largely due to Heidi’s predictably brilliant and incisive line of questioning, also notable for being the first event I’ve ever done where a host has been reduced to tears by reading my work, and also (related!) the first
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