“Car le désert n’est que cela : une critique extatique de la culture, une forme extatique de la disparition.”
– Jean Baudrillard, Amérique, 1986
Une forme extatique de la disparition
Monthly Archives: November 2024
The Future of the Novel
This is the back cover of The Future of the Novel by Simon Okotie (Melville House, 2025) with my enthusiastic endorsement.
Je est un autre
Me, Rottingdean, 2001.
The Language of Destruction
“‘Why is the language of destruction so beautiful?’ Owen said.”
– Don DeLillo, The Names, 1982
Je est un autre
Me, South-West France, summer 1990.
Loren Ipsum Cover Reveal
My novel Loren Ipsum will be published by Dodo Ink in September 2025. The beautiful painting on the cover is by Felicity Gill.
The Deader the Better
Writing the Murder (Dead Ink Books), edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V. Hirst, is out now. It contains my essay, ‘The Deader the Better: Writing the Murder.’ That’s not a reason not to buy it.
The Ghoul of Literature
“‘If I were a writer,’ Owen said, ‘how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work on the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.”
– Don DeLillo, The Names, 1982
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