Tag Archives: england
watch this space
Empty Space: I did my corrections in pencil on hard copy. Today will probably be the last time in history that an author puts a manuscript in a plastic bag & lugs it across London in the piss wet rain … Continue reading
on being vulnerable
“I have a hunch. Which is that the British are very ashamed of vulnerability. So what happens is whereas another culture might look back on their childhood and say, ‘God, I was so cute, I thought clouds were cotton wool,’ … Continue reading
Filed under the horror
those who know gifco
Those who have failed to regulate the self. Those whose behaviours enact a medicating fiction. Those who flew to the Canary Islands on a cheap ticket in December 1991 & left the remains of their personality in the apartment hotel. … Continue reading
Filed under the horror
in the mirror
Desirina Boskovich engages with “Black Houses” at Weird Fiction Review. & there’s a lot of reading here.
Filed under ghosts, science fiction
worlds of england
Tom, the central character of Jonathan Raban’s novel Waxwings (2003), is the child of East European immigrants living in Essex. When he reads Swallows and Amazons, he realises that England is “another country”. The street in which he lives is … Continue reading
