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Web design and programming by Camilo Garcia A. Typeset in Alte Haas Grotesk and Torre Farfan by Estefania González.
*a novel about novelness and the novelty of living with a newborn, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and Dorothy, a publishing project in 2023; shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the US Republic of Consciousness Prize the same year.
*an essay on the creative and critical life-practice of translation, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2017 and a tenth anniversary special edition in 2024. Recipient of a Windham Campbell prize for non-fiction in 2021.
*an exercise in reading and rewriting Elizabeth Howard’s The Long View, including a short essay on writing backwards.
*edited by Paul Becker and Francesco Pedraglio, published by Juan de la Cosa / John of the Thing with contributions from Paul Becker, Kate Briggs, Daniela Cascella, Sophie Collins, Renee Gladman, Nadia Hebson, Rubén Martín Giráldez, Arno Renken & Alejandro Zambra
*the first novel by the founder of 'The Gang of the Poetic Novel’. Hélène Bessette called it: 'a strange, lively, anxious mix – no, not depressing, far too clear and virile to be depressing.'
*‘My problem: how to pass … from a short, fragmented from (“notes”) to a long, continuous form (typically called “the novel”).’
*Fantasmatically speaking, there’s nothing contradictory about wanting to live alone and wanting to live together = our lecture course.
*selected extracts from Les Résumés (Le Nouvel attila, 2021) published in The Yale Review
*a book of collective thinking, workshop materials, exchanges, pedagogical rituals and new writing documenting a year-long inquiry into practices of conversation while in residence at Glasgow School of Art 2022-2023. Co-edited with Laura Haynes. Published by The Yellow Paper. Design by Neil McGuire.
*an experiment in listening to frequencies beyond human sensorial range, Silent Whale Letters is a long-distance correspondence intimately attuned to the infa-red voice of a blue whale, a document held silent in the sound archive, and other so-called ‘silent’ subjects.
*a special issue of Barthes Studies, co-edited with Sunil Manghani
*a collective exercise inviting practitioners from different disciplines to respond to the trial exam questions Vladimir Nabokov set his students in the 1950s (following his course Literature 311-12 or Masters of European Fiction). Documented in an exhibition at Shandy Hall, Coxwold and a limited edition publication co-edited with Lucrezio Russo and published by information as material. Design by Lucrezia Russo..
*a Rotterdam-based pedagogical and publishing project founded in 2016 and co-run with Annabelle Binnerts, Linus Bonduelle, Ash Kilmartin and Petter Dahlström Persson. Publishing 4-8 pamphlets of new writing by emerging and established artists / writers per year.
*I am a core tutor on the Masters in Fine Art & Design (Lens-Based) at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. I have recently guest tutored at Glasgow School of Art, Nederlands Film Academie, Sint Lucas Antwerpen, University of Oxford and with Landing Thoughts.
*The first free Short Pieces That Move winter school took place over two days in January 2025 at Het Wilde Weten with workshops led by Kate Briggs, Linus Bonduelle and Litó Walkey.
*Six poster-pairs produced to mark the Spanish edition of The Long Form / La Forma Extensa, and printed in English, Spanish (translated by Carlota Melguizo) and Catalan (translated by Miriam Cano). Water colours by Xavier Aballí. Design by Joe Hales.
*In his lecture notes, Roland Barthes imagined of a new form of literary criticism; rather than theme or structure, pathetic criticism would reconstruct a novel’s most powerful, affecting moments. The novel Barthes had in mind was Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-46), translator unknown. In 2011, I invited readers of all ages to talk to me about their most intense memories of the novel. The result was single page publication titled Exercise in Pathetic Criticism published by information as material in 2011.
You can download the fold-out poster (A3) here
*a series of paper-size poems originally produced for a talk on Georges Perec’s Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, translated by John Sturrock. The poems are made from the name of an obsolete European paper size printed on paper cut to the dimensions of the named size.
Download an essay on the project first published in Convolution here:
Download BIRD here:
Download SMALL HAND here:
Download SOLEIL here:
*an essay published in BRICKS FROM THE KILN #4 Edited by Natalie Ferris, Bryony Quinn, Matthew Stuart & Andrew Walsh‐Lister
*an essay on marcottage at The Paris Review