Alan Wall, author of the classic The School of Night, has a site here. On his links list we find Nina Allan, whose emotionally subtle, fiercely intelligent short story “Microcosmos” is available as a pdf at The Spider’s House, here. While, over here, Chris Priest subjects Julian Barnes to a kicking.
Still reading: Lucy Siegle’s To Die For. Reviewing: Ragnarok, AS Byatt. Regretting: the departure of Lindsay Duguid from the TLS. She was a fine editor & will be missed, especially by those of us whose reviewing careers she so carefully nurtured.
Have you heard of the Bill Nayer Band? Their movie The American Astronaut turns indie into a pronoun. It’s one of my all time favorite movies, weird and very aware of itself. Probably right up your alley, but it’s not for me to say.
Karen Russell’s St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves floored me. She could, but not exactly, be the female version of your style. Her characters are always on the cusp of some revelation, almost always on the back of some failure or another. And always, the landscape is as much a character as the protagonist.
Hi zxvasdf. The American Astronaut looks satisfyingly odd. I know of Karen Russell but I’m ashamed to say I haven’t read her.