Liza Minnelli in the Bedroom
“Get me a bin Laden.
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Playing Victim
It started with a fire-react on Insta.
Ben Sims's debut novel available now
The Long Let, £12.99, Conduit Books, released 12 November
The Life of Liam Cromwell, Personal Trainer
Only years later, after some dubious therapy, did he allow himself to remember how it’d happened.
Holding Sway
They were up in the gardens, ready to monetise the sunset.
Short Story in Dialogue, III
“Not gonna lie Alfred Nobel actually had a really good immortality hack.
Taking Your Daughter to the Furry Convention
Philip did, he’d admit, feel an all-suffusing wonder while holding hands with a 59-inch-tall bipedal wolf.
Elizabeth Audureau, The Art of Fiction No. 86
Reprinted by permission of The Paris Review. Issue No. 96, Spring 1985.
One year of short stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald was paid $3,000 per short story (c. $50,000 in 2025).
Nothing Unmediated
Admittedly for a man in his forties his approach to black tie is fastidious and archaic.