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Roads to Utopia

You can still get there right now, if you’re prepared to travel:

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Incendiary…

..Contined from last week. First episode here.

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Do you remember?

OK, a little while ago, I was telling you a story.

Then I broke off for an

Intermission

But now I’m back, and in colour…

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You might remember, I was living in the Last Affordable Bedsit in Islington, but there was someone I forgot to mention…


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More next week…

The Oxford Murders

A month ago I was at a party in Paris when I first met Todd Zuniga of Opium Magazine who also runs Literary Death Match. Being English, I made the unguarded comment, ‘You should do that in Oxford. Everyone there’s a writer.’ Being American, he replied, terrifyingly, ‘Sure – how about the first week in November?’.

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Luckily I know Xander Cansell, Oxford’s literary Mr Fix. Despite a slow start persuading people to be involved (might have been something to do with the word ‘death’ in the title*?) we ended up with a fine line-up including judges: multi-award winning poet and writer, Kate Clanchy; Idler editor, Dan Kieran and last-minute (I mean literarlly 30 minutes before) replacement for Tom Greeves, Ben Walker, who was not only lanconically hilarious but improvised on his guitar to order.

Reading were the fabulous Jake Wallis-Simons, Miranda WardMegan Kerr and LDM champion, George Chopping (‘the love child of Hugh Grant and John Hegley’ – Kate Clanchy). Here he is:

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The pen is mightier than the sword. Those who live by the pen, die by the pen (or perhaps by a particularly savage game of musical chairs…).

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Oh yes, and I did some live drawing…

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(Poster and bad photo by me. Good photos by Garrett Coakley)

*No living authors were harmed during the making of this event.