D O I N G S
Extremely exciting. I have made record. A genuine vinyl long-player. It's from a new venture called Underwood Stories. More information here.
One of my stories, 'Veronika and Roger-Roger' has been shortlisted for The Willesden Herald Short Story Competition 2010.
One of my stories, 'John and John' won the 2009 Manchester Fiction Prize. You can read it here.
The Penguin website I contributed a story to ('Slice') won the Best in Show award at SXSW. This is a big deal.
The cover of Hospital was runner-up in the Book Cover and Jacket section of the V&A Illustration Awards. More info here.
The cover art, and initial sketches, were on display as part of a small exhibition.
P U B L I S H I N G S
My new novel, King Death, will be published by Penguin in May 2010.
Journey into Space has been published by Penguin.
And I play the drums in a band called okay is out in paperback.
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An essay by me about Muriel Spark and greatness is in The Warwick Review.
I have a story called 'The Monster' in the anthology The Book of Other People, edited by Zadie Smith.
The New Writing 13 anthology I co-edited with Ali Smith was published by Picador in April 2005.
It contains new work by, among others, David Mitchell, Muriel Spark, John Berger, Nicola Barker,
Lawrence Norfolk and Fay Weldon. Read our introduction here.
I've written the introduction
to the second volume of Henry James's autobiography, Notes of a Son and Brother.
It should be out now. (Anyone seen it?)
R E A D I N G S
Friday 12th March. 7pm. 'Avant-Noir!' reading as part of the London Word Festival with Cathi Unsworth, Courttia Newland and Roy Banks.
Music from Led Bib.Toynbee Theater, London
Tuesday April 20th- something to launch the Underwood vinyl LP of 'The Hare' and 'Along Birdcage Walk'.
Saturday 8th May. Afternoon. Brighton Festival. Event on great travel books. With Victoria Glendinning and Sara Wheeler.
Will let you know if any others arise.
E - I N G S
An online story for Penguin: Slice.
Friend me:
http://blog.myspace.com/tobylitt
The full transcript of my interview with J.G.Ballard is here. (Proving quite popular, this.)
An interview about J.G.Ballard is here. (3.5.07)
And the panel session I did at the UEA Ballard Conference, From Shanghai to Shepperton, is here. (5.5.07)
A short thing on Short Stories and Novels that I did for the Arvon Foundation is downloadable here.
A couple of things up on the Hamish Hamilton website, which is worth checking out for itself.
All my cult books columns (now over fifty) are archived there now.
The 100th Bloomday live link-up with Sydney Australia I did from Dublin has been archived here.
T R A V E L L I N G S
In November 2003 I went to China for the British Council. Info here.
My ediary appears here.
F I L M I N G S
Journey into Space has been optioned by Sigma films.
My new novel King Death has been optioned by CMP films.
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'Rare Books & Manuscripts' was filmed in September 2004. View it here.
It was made by Sister Films and stars Neve McIntosh, Ian Mosby and Alexander Giles.
Soundtrack includes Belle & Sebastian music.
An adaptation of my short story 'A Higher Agency' from Exhibitionism
was filmed in London in November 2003. It stars Sir Anthony Sher (well, you name it) and Jack Davenport (Pirates of the Caribbean, This Life).
The director is Oliver Cheetham.
'The Audioguide' is also out there in filmland, now as an animation.
It looks likely there may be an adaptation of 'The New Puritans' from Exhibitionism.
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COLLECTINGS
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One of my stories, The Fish, placed in the Bridport Prize short story competition, and appears in the 2007 anthology.
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A section of Corpsing translated into German has been put online, thanks to Volker von der Gönner and Danielas Leselus,
who are agitating to get it published in Germany. It's here.
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P U B L I C I Z I N G S
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