Some things I have been recently doing:
• Writing a review of Brandon Scott Gorrell's 'During My Nervous Breakdown I Want To Have A Biographer Present'
• Buying art
• Buying old picture frames from junk shops
• Looking after our cat Rufus (he broke his leg three weeks ago)
• Making sure Rufus doesn't chase after his sister Arabella too much
• Reading 'The Poetics of Space'
• Writing my next novel 'Amber'
• Writing a chapter of my book 'On Boredom' on Tao Lin's work and lifestyle
• Trying not to eat too much
• Thinking about getting my hair cut
• Buying jeans and a winter woolly jumper
• Reading about LHC and the National Grid
• Reading about catastrophe
• Eating Toblerone (always struck me as odd that a chocolate bar should be named after a ‘10-km long defensive line made of ‘dragon's teeth’ that was built during the second World War between Bassins and Prangins, in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.’)
• Going to strange places like Chingford
• Looking after Holly (she’s been ill with a cold)
• Making chowder
• Making bread
• Making French onion soup
• Avoiding alcohol
• Wondering what the cover design for my forthcoming novel ‘The Canal’ will look like
• Reading ‘The Drinker’ by Hans Fallada (reads like Knut Hamsun)
• Loving married life
• Trying to ‘knuckle down’
• Preparing the creative writing classes I will be teaching
• Reading the many submissions I have received for my slot as October’s editor of Everyday Genius
• Preparing the accepted submissions for publication
• Looking forward to working on Will Ashon’s new novel ‘Work’ for 3AM Press.
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""A story assembled from everyday objects, unassumingly and quietly, that stuns and horrifies by increments...The Canal may look, at first glance, like a love story, but it harnesses the power of parable." John Wray, author of Lowboy.
