Andrew Mueller
Andrew Mueller
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Exchanging words for money since 1987
Male
40 years old
London
United Kingdom
Last Login: 7/9/2009
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| Books | This one's quite diverting, in patches. "A gung-ho Candide with a taste for places it is better to avoid. . . graphic, comic, bemused and properly contemptuous of faith and ideology."
- Jonathan Meades, Books of the Year, Evening Standard "An utterly sui generis report from the world's plague-spots."
- Michael Bywater, Books of the Year, The New Statesman "An addition to the genre founded by P.J. O'Rourke's 'Holidays In Hell', but it is one that pushes the boundaries"
- The Australian "Mueller is the embodiment of what can happen with a fire in the belly and a desire to write out loud"
- Australian Book Review "In the grand tradition of Mark Twain, though in a world considerably more hostile"
- The Daily Truth "Indelibly humorous and heartfelt"
- Sydney Sunday Telegraph "He brings to his material the mixture of rage and earthy irony that is the mark of a great satirist. . . rewarding, thought-provoking and ludicrously funny."
- PopMatters "Mueller busies himself with finding the odd, the surreal and the laughable as much as the shocking and upsetting."
- New Zealand Herald "An excellent example of why today's brave, lucid hacks are forced to admit fear and confusion."
- South China Morning Post "A strikingly funny book about some seriously unfunny places."
- Perth Sunday Times "Not bad for a guy from Wagga"
- The Wagga Wagga Advertiser Available on Picador in the Antipodes now, elsewhere at dates to be confirmed. Australian readers can order here, at an online retailer for which I hold no brief beyond being amused by the picture of the kangaroo. UK readers can buy it here, from the less marsupially encumbered amazon.co.uk. | | Heroes | Statler. Waldorf. |
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Andrew Mueller's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Hometown: | London, and hotels | | Zodiac Sign: | Sagittarius |
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Andrew Mueller's Latest Blog Entry
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Nashville-on-Thames: it's BACK
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FT stuff, and other stuff
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This weekend's FT column
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Times review of Richard Grant's "Bandit Roads", FT column.
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Uncut review of new Lemonheads album
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About me:
Wagga Wagga-born, London-based rock critic, foreign correspondent, travel writer and author, presently contributing more or less regularly to The Guardian, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, Arena, Uncut, High Life, Monocle, The New Humanist, opendemocracy.net, travelintelligence.net and ABC's "Worldview". Previously author of "Rock & Hard Places", contributing editor to the fifth edition of Robert Young Pelton's "The World's Most Dangerous Places", writer of sleevenotes for Straitjacket Fits and The Go-Betweens, and programme notes for U2.Have, among many journalistic misadventures in more than 70 countries, solicited World Cup tips from the Taliban, taken road trips with Hizbollah, patrolled Kabul with the Royal Anglian Regiment and Basra with the Welsh Guards, provided the Israeli Defence Force with a certain amount of target practice, ridden the Cresta Run and the Trans-Mongolian railway, played the country songwriters' open-mic at the Bluebird in Nashville, debated the relative merits of Jayhawks albums with Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Defence, toured with some of the world's biggest rock bands (U2, The Cure, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, etcetera ad infinitum), flown to Budapest to get a haircut, asked Gerry Adams why he never joined the IRA, and been imprisoned in Cameroon. Have also done major interviews with, among very many others, Paddy Ashdown, Al Gore, Dame Stella Rimington, George Galloway, Mordechai Vanunu, Boris Johnson, Bernard-Henri Levy, Leonard Peltier, Sir Iqbal Sacranie, Saif Gaddafi, Peter Hain and Helena Christensen. A slowly evolving archive offering evidence in favour of these assertions may be found at www.andrewmueller.net Also bear a startling resemblance to the singer of The Blazing Zoos, a country band which began as a sleep-deprived hallucination in a Tripoli hotel room in early 2006, but which has since developed a curious life of its own, which is explained in greater detail here. Also, while we're up that way, co-proprietor, under overwrought pseudonym, of Nashville-on-Thames, a monthly country music club in London, about which more may be gleaned here. A new book, "I Wouldn't Start From Here: A Misguided Tour Of The Early 21st Century" is available now through Picador in Australia and New Zealand, and will be available in the UK through Portobello in August 2008. Links to new online articles, and whatever else seems a good idea at the time, will be blogged right here, on this page.
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Who I'd like to meet:
People who'd like to buy a book, called - that title again - "I Wouldn't Start From Here: A Misguided Tour Of The Early 21st Century". Seriously, it has everything: one bemused hack's peregrinations from Afghanistan to Abkhazia, from Baghdad to Belgrade, from Gaza to Gibraltar, from Tirana to Tripoli, from lots of other places to still more others which share a meaninglessly coincidental first letter, featuring gunfights, car chases, gaol cells, revolutionaries, rock stars, exotic locations - it's like a Bond film, but with much, much less sex.Other than that, profligate editors, impressionable heiresses and an eccentric millionaire pedal steel player. No time-wasters.
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