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Out-selfing Will Self: An Interview With Austin Collings

Ahead of his talk at Manchester's Anthony Burgess Foundation this evening (26th June), Colm McAuliffe sits down with author Austin Collings — the man previously dubbed the 'crisp-packet Ballard' on these pages — to discuss musicality and musical influence in his writing, the futility of Next Big Thing lists, out-selfing Will Self and his book The Myth of Brilliant Summers
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B.S. Johnson & The Amniotic Fluid Of Words

In a second piece to mark the 80th anniversary of the celebrated author's birth - and fortieth of his death - Daniel Fraser considers the relationship between writer and reader and the tyranny of reason in Johnson's work
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I Fail To Remember: B.S. Johnson Thirty Years On

Forty years after his death, and as a new collection of his drama and prose is published, Aidan Moffat and Gareth Campesinos! remember B.S. Johnson to Fearghus Roulston and recount his influence on their own work

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