About me
After all, there is nothing but failure. – Thomas Bernhard
Projects
- What a Lulu!Alban Maria Johannes Berg was born 138 years ago today on the 9th of February, 1885, in Vienna. OK, it's not a particularly significant anniversary, I know; he's just my favourite composer, along with Debussy, and I'm probably one of the happy few who's going to remember him today. Gonna listen to Lulu later and so should you, the Boulez/Stratas version if you please. Or maybe the violin concerto, or the Lyric Suite. Or his early lieder, ravishingly beautiful. Ya can't go wrong with Alban. Open
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Work history
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LecturerOpen Age
London, United KingdomFreelance
Filling in for philosophy lecturer on bereavement leave; Zoom talks on Machiavelli, La Rochefoucauld and Plato’s Symposium; and from April, 2024 Zoom talks on music
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Freelance WriterPublications Publications Publications
London, United KingdomFreelance
WRITING-EDITING-TRANSLATING:
Story, Kafka On the Beach, Apricity
Story, Fin de partie, The Exacting Clam
Poem, Miller's tale, The Naugatuck River Review
Story, Screamer, The Howler Project
Novel, Bebe, CB Editions
Short story, The Tragic Circus, BarBar
Everyone Knows It's Wendy, Perfect Sound Forever
Short story, The Camel's Eye (a tale of conspicuous consumption), Postbox
6 Poems, New World Writing
Book Reviewer, The Tablet
Essay, The Man Who Loved New York, Slag Glass City
Short Story, The Lost Episodes of I Love Lucy, McSweeney's
Poem, Orpheus Calls Their Bluff, Panoplyzine
Story, Kafka On The Beach, Ambit
Flash Fiction, Timberland, Seed Story
Two poems anthologised, The Servant & Evenings In The Great Cities, Greetings, Enthusiastic Press
Contributor, Classical Music
ebook, Sorcerer: A Life of Miles Davis, Endeavour Press
Regular contributor, The Journal of Music
Spanish to English legal translations, Publicis Blueprint
Regular Contributor, Film Comment
Essay anthologised, Contemporary Literary Criticism
Contributor, The London Magazine
Regular Contributor, The First Post
Book, Miles Davis, optioned, Trihughes Entertainment
Essay anthologised, Film Review Annual
Contributor (chess articles), Encyclopaedia Americana
Book, Malcolm X, Scholastic, commissioned but unpublished
Stories, China Is Near & And Now For a Word From Our Sponsor, Southern Cross Review, (Arg)
Contributor, Chess Life
Regular contributor, Cineaste
Contributor, Archipelago
Regular contributor, Salon
Regular contributor, The Colombian Post
Book, Miles Davis, Grolier/Franklin Watts
Regular Contributor, Weekend City Press Review, UK
Contributor, Cross Section (JPN)
Book, Salvador Dali, Chelsea House
Contributor, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Regular contributor, Art Review, UK
Regular contributor, Opera News
Skills
- Foreign Languages
- Translation Editing
- Writing Poetry
- Film Writing
- Critical Writing
- Magazine Articles
- Online Writing
- Ad Copywriting
- Podcasting
- Blog Writing
Education
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BASchool of General Studies, Columbia University
- New York, United States
BA English, autumn 1985. Deans List; also studied French, Spanish and Italian
Awards
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Archery Prize, 2d PlaceCamp Cholera
A silver arrow and a jar of Smucker's.