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'Bad Blood'

Adelle's wonderful poem Bad Blood has been set to film and music.

Full details here.

A Year In Books: 2013

  Reading list

The World Made Straightby Ron Rash
Magnificent Joeby James Wheatley
How Music Worksby David Byrne
Train Dreamsby Denis Johnson
The Slide Areaby Gavin Lambert
Out Of Sheer Rageby Geoff Dyer
We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes From 1980s Southern California  by Dave Markey and Jordan Schwarz
Hawthorn And Childby Keith Ridgway
They Drive By Nightby James Curtis
All The Little Animals by Walker Hamilton
Supernatural Strategies For Making A Rock ‘N Roll Group by Ian Svenonius
Kno...

'Snorri & Frosti'

Buy your limited Christmas edition here.

 






















(Photo by Elin Høyland, taken from The Brothers)
  

My Year In Freelance Journalism: 2013

How fortunes shift and chance. Twelve months ago I was close to giving up journalism, yet here I sit today having miraculously contributed more pieces for more publications than in any similar period since I started doing this professionally in 1996. Against all odds 2013 has been something of a bumper year on that front.

Don't ask me how this has happened: I just know I'm very lucky. I love the fast pace of journalism, the commitment to work counts and deadlines. I'v...

Currently Reading

Albums Of The Year 2013

In no particular order... Melt Yourself Down – Melt Yourself DownTeeth Of the Sea – MasterCongo Natty – Jungle Revolution  Bosnian Rainbows – Bosnian RainbowsVampire Weekend – Vampires Of The CityFat White Family – Champagne Holocaust 
Baby Godzilla – Knockout MachineWolf People – FainMatt Berry – Kill The Wolf


Iceage - You’re NothingThese New Puritans – Field Of ReedsDillinger Escape Plan- One Of Us Is The Killer 

Broadcast – Berberian Sound StudioMogwai – Les Revenan...

Snorri & Frosti

 I have a new book OUT NOW.  It’s called Snorri & Frosti and it is available as a limited edition paperback via 3AM Press.
Is it a short novel? A mid-sized novella? A long short story? A play? A poem? Yes. All of these. One other thing is certain: it is about two elderly brothers in a snowbound cabin somewhere in Northern Europe. Dare I say it might make a good Christmas present.
It is priced £10 and can be bought from Galley Beggar Press.
Or from Amazon here. The cover...

The Northern Echo interview

Ben feels the Burn in Durham

Durham-born Ben Myers tells Steve Pratt how he was inspired by the late Tyneside author Gordon Burn. Now, Myers has become the first winner of the Gordon Burn Award

THE writing of Gordon Burn first came to the attention of Ben Myers when he was growing up in Durham. “I became aware of him after my sister said there’s this writer from the North-East and you should read him,” he recalls. So he read Burn’s book Happy Like Murderers about Fred and Rose West. Not only...

Sub Altern Podcast interview

The lovely man and great writer Nikesh Shukla interviewed me for his Sub Altern podcast series.

We talked about music journalism, visceral writing, Oasis being boring live but Supergrass' first album still sounding good, writers you like when you're a teenager versus writers you look in your thirties, Bret Easton Ellis, James Salter, JD Sallinger's bunker, landscape, my forthcoming novel and much more besides.

You can listen to the interview here.

You should also check out Nikesh's first no...

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This week's tomes...