BOMB/Millions

I've got a review on Richard Ford's Let Me Be Frank With You at The Millions and an interview with Laura Buckley at BOMB Magazine.

Two smaller pieces: something on writers' rooms for the Long & Short and a Q&A with Julie Verhoeven for Dazed Online.

Reading: The Killer Inside Me; The Gift; Chess; Engleby; What Happened to Art Criticism?; Roger's Version; A Death in the Family; A Man in Love; Live and Learn

Soho House/Sussex

For Soho House (£) here's a round-up I did of the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition, an interview ahead of a Jasper Johns show at the Courtauld Gallery; a preview of the Horst V&A show; an interview with Piet Oudolf.

Am going to be joining the University of Sussex from September as a part-time Teaching Fellow on their new Journalism BA.

Reading: Shooting an Elephant, Nausea (re-read), Jude the Obscure, The Circle, Thomas Mann's Dr Faustus, Master and Margarita, Gasping for Airtime, Poking a Dead Frog, Randall, The People's Platform, Supergods, Digital Disconnect, Canada, The Sportswriter, Independence Day, Let Me Be Frank With You, The Line of Beauty, Concrete Island

Co-housing

I have a piece on co-housing in the Independent magazine.

Reading: Rum Punch, To The Lighthouse, Flight from the Enchanter, Fool's Gold (non-fiction), The Shallows (non-fiction), The Sea, The Sea, High-Rise, The Big Con (non-fiction), The Ice Storm, Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (non-fiction), The Sandcastle, Leaving the Atocha Station, The Sovereignty of Good, Idiopathy, The Outsider (re-read), The Savage Detectives, Mother's Milk, The Sea, La Jalousie, Death Sentence, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P, Žižek on Lacan

I'm assembling a YouTube channel with some of the lectures I've been doing at Kingston over the past year.