Some margin notes which turned into a longish piece in which I draw a wobbly, sometimes thin, line between Virginia Woolf, Patricia Highsmith, Dennis Lehane, Gillian Flynn, Old Man Burroughs, Kathy Acker and Jeff Vandermeer. The line starts here.

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How to write an author bio
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In part 7 Reubens and the narrator visit a suicidal borough and come across a very strange bookstore.

slouchingtowardsbeckenham.substack.com/p/7-archway

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Still at it!

slouchingtowardsbeckenham.substack.com/p/6-dulwich

Part 6 Today, Reubens buy some drugs from the worlds nicest dealer, and we learn more (perhaps) about Reubens' project

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Yeah but suppose you're only 2?

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Reubens decides he wants to see what young people do and ends up in Vauxhall... Spies, Joseph Conrad, George Sand gender fluidity and throwing away a girl's phone number.

slouchingtowardsbeckenham.substack.com/p/5-vauxhall

I'm still writing, despite all that (gestures toward the world)

Reubens and his heroic assistant visit an old friend south of the river. They take drugs.

slouchingtowardsbeckenham.substack.com/p/4-sydenham

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“‘to live’ and ‘to dream’ are at every point synonymous;”

—Jorge Luis Borges

Do you want to know more about #weirdlit? Neither did I.
But then, I met this guy in a pub in London, and boy did he set me right.
Read more:
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Reintroducing myself to #BookSky: I'm Gabriel, serializing weird fiction about London's hauntings and subterranean spirits.
In "Slouching" a narrator documents his friend Reubens' project to decode the city. New chapters weekly (ish): slouchingtowardsbeckenham.substack.com

As I threatened previously I've started the blog. Its mainly old character sketches for novels and short stories which I have re-arranged using a (to me) interesting framework. (HT Robert Bolano).

Anyway, here we go.
gabrielsann.substack.com

After endless procrastination, I've finally started writing again. As an outsider (in several ways), I'm probably the wrong person to map British literature, but here we are. Gatekeepers, gate-crashers, authenticity police, authenticity criminals, humans, bots... and occasionally, actual books.