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The Swank Bisexual Winebar of Modernity
The swank bisexual wine bar of modernity is a collection of 16 stories by HP Tinker during which:
● Paul Gauguin considers himself moderately in love with Jacqueline Du Pre
● Pierre Boulez redevelops Kandahar for homosexuals
● a General re-reads The Color Purple between battles, close to tears
● pornography enjoys renewed popularity due to the extensive modeling work of Bertrand Russell
● the Morrissey Exhibition arrives in Your Town
● a writer uncovers great truths in the back of a Cortina
● a detective ponders the ambiguous relationship between Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr
● beautiful memories of a Nazi childhood are revisited
● due to the greatest hits of Tina Turner a woman’s feelings are never truly considered
● an old lady is pushed into a canal
● the Irish poet and critic Tom Paulin leaves the top button of his shirt undone to affect a more casual appearance
● a minimalist lives in surprising opulence
● conflict and inner turmoil are the long-term effects of taking substantial quantities of heroin in various anonymous bathroom settings
● the author’s death leads to the overthrow of the entire Haitian government
● Jean Vigo contemplates the nature of time in a hotel lobby
● life strikes me as largely unfair
- from Social Disease
● Paul Gauguin considers himself moderately in love with Jacqueline Du Pre
● Pierre Boulez redevelops Kandahar for homosexuals
● a General re-reads The Color Purple between battles, close to tears
● pornography enjoys renewed popularity due to the extensive modeling work of Bertrand Russell
● the Morrissey Exhibition arrives in Your Town
● a writer uncovers great truths in the back of a Cortina
● a detective ponders the ambiguous relationship between Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr
● beautiful memories of a Nazi childhood are revisited
● due to the greatest hits of Tina Turner a woman’s feelings are never truly considered
● an old lady is pushed into a canal
● the Irish poet and critic Tom Paulin leaves the top button of his shirt undone to affect a more casual appearance
● a minimalist lives in surprising opulence
● conflict and inner turmoil are the long-term effects of taking substantial quantities of heroin in various anonymous bathroom settings
● the author’s death leads to the overthrow of the entire Haitian government
● Jean Vigo contemplates the nature of time in a hotel lobby
● life strikes me as largely unfair
- from Social Disease
145 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
About the author
H.P. Tinker
6 books1 followerHP Tinker is a Manchester-based short story writer whose avant garde fiction has been compared to Borges and Donald Barthelme. In 2007, Time Out called him an "unsung comic genius" and he has famously been referred to as "the Thomas Pynchon of Chorlton-cum-Hardy".
Initially championed by Martin Bax at Ambit, novelist Nicholas Royle and 3:AM Magazine's Andrew Gallix, he was considered a key member of the Offbeat generation.
His collection of short fiction, The Swank Bisexual Wine Bar of Modernity, became an instant underground classic on its release and earned Tinker cult author status. The book has now been translated and published as La Ostentosa Bodeguita Bisexual de la Modernidad by progressive Spanish publisher El Tercer Nombre.
The Times has praised his "hilarious deadpan surrealism", The Independent thought him "unusual, arresting, smart and very funny" and The Guardian remarked that he "fizzes with the kind of zany, surreal conjunctions that recall Barthelme and Pynchon in their prime".
- from Wikipedia
See an autobiography of sorts for an idea of his writing style here: http://www.everyday-genius.com/2009/1...
Initially championed by Martin Bax at Ambit, novelist Nicholas Royle and 3:AM Magazine's Andrew Gallix, he was considered a key member of the Offbeat generation.
His collection of short fiction, The Swank Bisexual Wine Bar of Modernity, became an instant underground classic on its release and earned Tinker cult author status. The book has now been translated and published as La Ostentosa Bodeguita Bisexual de la Modernidad by progressive Spanish publisher El Tercer Nombre.
The Times has praised his "hilarious deadpan surrealism", The Independent thought him "unusual, arresting, smart and very funny" and The Guardian remarked that he "fizzes with the kind of zany, surreal conjunctions that recall Barthelme and Pynchon in their prime".
- from Wikipedia
See an autobiography of sorts for an idea of his writing style here: http://www.everyday-genius.com/2009/1...
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