A DISPUTE
I never wanted literature to come between friends.
THE KUREISHI CHRONICLES
Dispatches from my hospital bed. Writing on writing; sex and drugs and music, TV shows and writers I admire, my memories, among other matters.
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MY EAR AT HIS HEART
From the archives
WHAT STORY ARE WE IN?
Searching for the shape of what happened
SHITTING SLEEPING WANKING EATING
NOW FREE: Age turns our former pleasures into torments.
SHITTING SLEEPING WANKING EATING
Age turns our former pleasures into torments.
SUMMER WRITING COMPETITION
Win £250, a signed book, a personal video from me, and publication to 40,000 readers
MY BLUE MOOD
If our moods are like a weather system, I have spent a lot of time trying to balance this private climate
NECESSARY ENEMIES
NOW FREE: You need the early, intrusive parent to build the machine; you need the rival to test it
ON DESCRIPTION, OR HOW NOT TO SMOTHER YOUR STORY
NOW FREE: There is a key moment in a writer's life when you stop writing in the style you consider novels should sound like, and start writing to entertain yourself.
THE LONG WALK
So, I’m upright again on this road, my legs fully extended and carrying me, one hard, small dragged step at a time.
ON DESCRIPTION, OR HOW NOT TO SMOTHER YOUR STORY
There is a key moment in a writer's life when you stop writing in the style you consider novels should sound like, and start writing to entertain yourself.