Is David Seabrook Dead?
What started as a trickle of email and phone call rumour yesterday, had by today turned into a flood of conversation. The first message was from true crime author Neil Milkins: “Are you able to tell me if David Seabrook has died. I have had an email saying he died January 2009.” When Cathi Unsworth contacted me about Seabrook today, I was able to trace the rumour mill carrying this story back through a network of my friends via novelist David Peace to film director Paul Tickell. So I called Paul to get the story.
By Stewart Home.
Modern Lovers of Debris
In the March issue of Dazed & Confused magazine, Andrew Gallix writes of Tom McCarthy: Now that Tom McCarthy‘s debut novel Remainder is toasted as a contemporary classic by the likes of Zadie Smith, it is easy to forget that no publisher would touch it. The young author increasingly looked to the art world, where […]
Nathan Barley Never Did This
Hot on the heels of last weekend’s ‘Space for Thought’ literary weekend at the LSE comes the second London Word Festival, which begins on Saturday and runs until the 25th. Sadly the Iain Sinclair/Band of Susans link-up is sold out but you can catch Joe Dunthorne, Salena Godden (pictured) and Lee Rourke acting Shakespearean down […]