*** To enter this giveaway to win a free copy of The Open Cage simply follow this blog and then send an email with the subject GIVEAWAYTOC and your name, email and postal address *** About the book When an expedition encounters a gigantic iron cage, lying open, in the depths of the jungle …
Episode 03 of Unsound Methods podcast is out now and Jaimie and I speak to Iosi Havilio, author of Open Door, Paradises and Petit Fleur all published by And Other Stories, You can listen below, headover to unsoundmethods.co.uk or download it in all the usual podcast places. https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/6666496-iosi-havilio/embed/v4?eid=AQAAAIlWlFoAuWUA We speak about Iosi’s upbringing in Paris and Buenos Aires, …
Episode 02 of Unsound Methods podcast is out now. This week we speak to Megan Dunn, author of Tinderbox (Galley Beggar, 2017). We cover the act of balancing fiction and non-fiction, wrestling with the estate of Ray Bradbury and writing the great mermaid novel of the Western canon. Headover to unsoundmethods.co.uk to check it out or …
Episode 01 of Unsound Methods is finally live… after a fair amount of tinkering and learning of the podcasting ropes we now have the first episode of our new podcast Unsound Methods for your listening pleasure. Listen here https://unsoundmethods.co.uk/episode-01-neil-griffiths/ or find it at all the usual podcast places. In this episode we speak to Neil Griffiths, …
My recent article – The Rise Of The Intelligent Authors – is published in the latest issue of Philosophy Now magazine. You can get the physical magazine at all the usual places or read a slightly extended version online here
More details on this to come but here is a quick update on the Unsound Methods podcast and where we are up to. We now have a rudimentary site up at unsoundmethods.co.uk and a logo (see below) as well as most of series one recorded. We aim to launch in the new year but for …
[excerpt from London Literary Review] …It can be argued that the entirety of human civilization has developed purely because of our ability to create those fictions which allow us to co-operate. The idea of an all powerful god, the ideas of nationhood and culture, the concepts of money and capitalism. These fictions are powerful but ultimately …
I recently had the chance to talk with Jeff Meyerson on the SE daily podcast and we had a fairly wide-ranging conversation covering everything from extremism and machine learning to the nature and manipulation of perception online.
Living in the secular West it is easy to believe that religion is a completely outdated idea – a quaint tradition that still persists in some corners of the world, but one that will steadily wither as modern society progresses. However, the news that Google is stepping up its battle against …
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I am pleased to be talking at Walthamstow library on 17th June as part of a day of creative writing events that will include interviews and workshops for writers and those interested in literary fiction. I will be speaking at 3pm with Jaimie Batchan about the The Wave and the journey to write it and …