D O I N G S
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 until March 18th as part of a small exhibition.
P U B L I S H I N G S
My new novel, title Journey into Space, will be published by Hamish Hamilton next year. Yes, it's science fiction.
One of my stories, The Fish, placed in the Bridport Prize short story competition, and appears in the 2007 anthology.
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.
Hospital is out in paperback. More info here. And here.
I play the drums in a band called okay is out now.
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.
More info here. And if you're interested in submitting for New Writing 14, go 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
Special guest at 2 Drummers Drumming, the Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Friday 15th August, 4.30pm. The 2 drummers are Maurice Bacon (The Love Affair) and Mathew Priest (Dodgy).
Edinburgh International Book Festival, Studio Theatre, 16th August, 8.30pm with Doug Johnstone
UEA, Sainsbury Centre, Thursday 4th September, early afternoon, talk 'Keep it Simple, Stupid: Minimalism in Prose'
Small Wonder Festival, Charleston, Thursday 18th September, 6pm
Cheltenham Literary Festival, Sunday 19th October, with Ian Rankin and Doug Johnstone
JCC Lit Cafe, Thursday 27th November, evening
E - I N G S
An online story for Penguin: Slice.
Friend me:
http://blog.myspace.com/tobylitt
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.
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)
An interview with Alex of Shadowplay magazine is here.
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
'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.
P U B L I C I Z I N G S
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