Saturday, 13 October 2018

twenty-seven word review of 'rod hull: a bird in the hand'

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Emigration, non-speaking ventriloquism, violence, Jim Badger the producer; infidelity and death; reading this documentary and Yalom’s Exi...

twenty-seven word story, dedicated to knott's four-figure mathematical tables (no longer selling so well)

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Friends, retro-obsessed hipster mathematicians, are having an excerpt from some four-figure mathematical tables read when they tie the Kno...
Wednesday, 3 October 2018

'writers unchained', this sunday 7:30pm, southbank club, bristol bs3 1db

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If you could visit the late 1970s by way of an ATOL-accredited package tour, *would* you? You can hear me read my new time travel story, ...
Saturday, 1 September 2018

she studied sculpture at st martin’s college: twenty-seven word reviews of films about beatniks, zombies and other riff-raff

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Night of the Demon (1957, dir. Jacques Tourneur, starring Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis) -   Superlative, sweatily claus...

teleportation, demigods, hackney, stevenage etc: twenty-seven word reviews of some books I’ve read recently

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Lynne Segal’s Making Trouble –   Personal is political in this engaging, thoughtful, inclusive ‘I-witness’ memoir; lived experience ...
Monday, 13 August 2018

brexit digest

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Wednesday, 1 August 2018

russian history lesson

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Alexander Kerensky maintained a “no enemies to the left” strategy, and it didn’t work out very well for him in the end. Okay, let’s ...

idea for a comedy sequel to ‘the time traveller’s wife’

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Idea for a comedy sequel to The Time Traveller’s Wife , to be called The Time Traveller’s Toilet . This film is about the man who, once...
Sunday, 1 July 2018

twenty-seven words following the river of death downstream - and some other films i've watched recently

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Cosh Boy; also known as The Slasher in USA (1953, dir.   Lewis Gilbert, starring James Kenney, Joan Collins; feat. Hermione Gingold as Qu...

twenty-seven words about lawns, putin, the lake district, computronium etc

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Did you arrive here through my suggestion on twitter that you take Yuval Noah Harari away with you on holiday (so to speak)? If so, welcom...
Sunday, 22 April 2018

'a moment in time', sunday 29th april, 7:00pm, southbank club, bristol bs3 1db

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A number of local writers will present work on a theme of 'A Moment in Time' at this Writers Unchained event next Sunday. Please d...
Sunday, 18 March 2018

to russia with love

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Social media is a strange place, these days - as unreal as Narnia, but with greater leverage over our real world than that magical land ...
Thursday, 1 March 2018

waiting for the gift of

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twenty-seven word review of my favourite 1960s b-movie which i watched for, perhaps, the fifth time, plus some other films i watched during november, december, january and february

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X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes (1963, dir. Roger Corman, starring Ray Milland, Diane Van der Vlis). This Kennedy-era thriller – creepy, ...

twenty-seven word reviews of Deutschland 83 and The End of the F***king World

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The End of the F***king World (Channel 4):  ‘Brit noir’, reminiscent of Sightseers (2012) ; similarly powered by a perverse love of dra...
Thursday, 21 December 2017

this time of transformation

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twenty-seven word story about a philosophy undergraduate's rubbish shift at pizza express (with four hundred and sixty-eight words of notes)

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Philosophy student, waiting tables. “I’m observing – admiring – myself as a waiter. Bad faith, Sartre says. Merde , admiring my bad faith no...
Wednesday, 1 November 2017

twenty-seven word reviews of films seen during august, september and october

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The Raven  (1935, dir. Louis Friedlander, aka Lew Landers, starring Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff) - If your consultant’s other specialisms in...

twenty-seven word reviews of books read during august, september and october

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Nnedi Okrafor’s  Binti.  Some great aliens in YA novella about Himba  girl (Namibia) leaving home (in various senses) for offworld uni. A f...
Saturday, 7 October 2017

write up! speak up! sun 15th october

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I'll be doing two poems at Write Up! Speak Up! (a Wells Festival of Literature event) - the cormorant in South London one, and the Moby...
Saturday, 30 September 2017

twenty-seven words about helicopters and rainbows

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I’m noticing helicopters, rainbows lately. Helicopters salient because militarism, war; rainbows because Genesis 9:11-17  = God undertake...
Tuesday, 12 September 2017

david foster wallace: where i was when i heard

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If a public figure has been an inspiration to you, you’ll remember how and when you learned of their death, particularly if that death was ...