Nietzsche is my philosophical idol and my collection of Aphorisms, Notes From The Autopsy of God, which I have been tweeting recently, is very Nietzschian in style. Philosophically I would describe myself as an optimistic nihilist or a jaded humanist. is a homage to Brautigan (have a look at the cover of Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Wont Blow It All Away). Brautigan’s writing never ceases to amaze me even though I have read his work many times, (and read him often to my students) his casual inventive turn of phrase - his sheer audacity with the written word still leaves me breathless.Ī reviewer once said of some of my short stories that they were ‘brazenly inconsequential’ I loved the phrase because it reminded me of Brautigan’s work. I found a battered old copy of Slapstick, or Lonesome No More in my year off before college in a second hand book shop in the back streets of Katmandu…as you do.Īnother important influence on my work is the also late and also great Richard Brautigan. This should come as no shock since it was Vonnegut who inspired me to become a writer. My writing, I am sometimes told, is reminiscent of the late great Kurt Vonnegut. In the church next door he meets Edgar Malroy, soon to be the richest man in the world. He's a supermarket trolly, and he believes in God. After the three weeks of his childhood he's sent to work in a ShopALot store. this book's rare pleasure is that, as well as numerous running gags, it boasts a wealth of conceptual and structural jokes.' was made on the 3rd of November 2022 in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Chelmsford. is a venomously intelligent and funny novel with a richly European combination of whimsy and seriousness.
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