He doesn’t like Ben Lerner. He doesn’t like most successful writers. He sits in his bathtub reading Ben Lerner’s Hatred of Poetry, because he hates Ben Lerner, and he hates poetry. He doesn’t just sit in his bathtub. He lies.…
My new dystopian novel Black Friday 2050, is now out! In 2050, pleasure is the drug of choice. When an accident renders Jack Preston severely dopamine deficient, he becomes immune to his sensory overload addiction. Immune to the organisations who…
Tomorrow is the release date of my novel, Black Friday 2050! Find it on pre-sale here. Check out chapter 1 below! Chapter 1 It was an afternoon like any other, and my notifications totaled two million. Hurrying inside the two…
It was Tuesday when Akira disappeared. I got home early to find the house ransacked. Her clothes had been meticulously removed from the cupboard, her shoes were gone from their resting place in the hall, and her toiletries were picked…
Six hundred people in the space of fifty square meters. They’re crammed in tight around the edges and we only just get our own spot. Everyone is dancing, but it’s a slow dance even in the fast songs. I catch…
There is an oak tree at the end of a winding road Out passed the beaches and the ritzy mansions, Up on a cliff at the edge of the world. – I visited it with her in the spring of…
I had the chance to sit down and have an interview with Bri Lee, the author of Who Gets to Be Smart? Our chat took us on a journey through modern education, how it privileges some and discriminates against others…
Six months ago, I started making video essays for YouTube on philosophy and literature. I thought now would be a good time to look back and reflect on the progress I have made so far, and to look at the…
Long before Amazon, Twitter and Facebook, a company called Simulmatics Corporation sought to predict and control human behaviour through the analysis of big data. If Then tells the story of that company, from its humble beginnings in a tiny office…
Earlier this year, I read Breasts and Eggs, a feminist novel by the author Mieko Kawakami. It took me a couple of tries to get into it, but on the second time I was drawn in by the descriptions of…