Journalism

Self-centred

This was commissioned as a Diary Piece for the Daily Telegraph Magazine. Unlike pieces bearing the same name in, say,...

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Mudflat Apogee

First published in GQ 19937 a.m. and the machines are still clanking and whirring in the windowless slot halls at the...

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Thomas Pynchon – the Man, the Myth & the New Book

Thomas Pynchon – the Man, the Myth & the New Book

July. The wires are humming. Early signs of impending confabulation are starting to trickle through the aether. Browsing Pynchonomanes, or those of an excitability approaching that condition, are alerted to a listing on Amazon.com.

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Terence McKenna

This piece was first published in 'The Daily Telegraph' Things are starting to go squirrelly in the Amazon basin....

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Cornelia Parker

A tall, high cheek-boned woman in a headscarf stands on the white cliffs of Dover holding an ornate but tarnished...

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David Duchovny

First published in GQ, November 1996 "I've been working with David for six weeks," says Tim Hutton, who plays Raymond,...

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Terry Gilliam

This piece was first published in Icon magazine in 1998 "I wanted to keep him away from the film," says Terry Gilliam,...

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Ken Campbell

First published in The Independent, 1994 The main square in Bury St Edmund's is packed with citizens. A military band...

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Syd Barrett

Syd died on July 11, 2006. This appreciation of his life appeared in 'The Observer' on July 16 On a summer afternoon...

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