“If there can be said to be such a thing as a typical Krzhizhanovsky story – this is, after all, a person who wrote stories in which the Eiffel Tower tries to join the Soviet cause, a man gets lost in a tiny room, and a toad from the River Styx bemoans the lack of exclusivity in the underworld – it would be “Someone Else’s Theme” in which a dishevelled man offers a stranger an entire philosophical system in exchange for dinner.”
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I have resurreted my VICE piece on the Kyrgyz clinic treating heroin addiction by inducing comas on my Substack. The clinic is still open for business.
Introduction to this now on Substack
https://nickholdstock.substack.com/p/w-or-the-memory-of-childhood-by-georges
At the risk of jumping on a bandwagon that has pulled over to the curb, I have started a Substack where I will do what is expected of me. First up is a piece I wrote for the Dublin Review more than a decade ago about online dating in Kyrgyzstan. I am sure that will have aged well! https://tinyurl.com/mbze39az
You can be first to pre-order Porcupine from Asterism, a site that is much kinder on publishers than the usual deathstars, though it is of course your right to offer them your patronage. More on them and pre-ordering from elsewhere soon to follow…
I wrote about the great M John Harrison for The TLS.
It gets out in December.
I wrote about the Chinese Internet for the TLS
My novel about the art historian Aby Warburg’s struggle with madness, that was shortlisted for the Novel Prize, will be out next year.
I wrote about this behemoth of a novel for the TLS.
I wrote about the sequel to Wild Swans for the TLS
I have a new piece in the latest issue of the Dublin Review.
I am thrilled to have been shortlisted for the Prize.
I have a new story in the latest issue of Exacting Clam.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-14-autumn-2024/partial-object/
I wrote about Antoine Volodine’s Mevlido’s Dreams and Sergei Lebedev’s A Present Past for the TLS.
I wrote about memoirs and activism for The Dial.
I have an esssay in the summer issue of the Dublin Review about the desert in Morocco.
I have a new piece in the TLS.
I wrote about Xinran’s latest book for The TLS.
I wrote about Gerald Murnane’s sui generis masterpiece for The TLS.
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/inland-gerald-murnane-book-review-nick-holdstock/
I have a new piece of non-fiction in the latest issue of The Dublin Review, a magazine I love writing for – one of the few quality homes for longform non-fiction.
You can order it here (and subs are cheap): https://thedublinreview.com/product/winter-2023-24/
I have a new short story in the Winter issue of Exacting Clam.
I wrote about The Dial magazine for The TLS
I’m going back to China for the first time in a decade. I wonder if anything has changed?
I wrote about Mathias Enard’s new novel for The TLS.
I wrote about Tahir Hamut Izgil’s memoir for the TLS.
I wrote about Tom Parfitt’s North Caucasus travel book for Literary Review.
Nick Holdstock 