Anything but Hackneyed
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Anything but Hackneyed
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41 years old
Hackney
United Kingdom
Last Login: 10/23/2008
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| General | Books, writing and Manchester City football club. | | Music | God. Anything that's a bit left-field, a bit challenging. What's the point in having a collection full of the same stuff. I like experiencing a vast range of sounds.
At the moment I'm liking Patrick Wolf, Ellen Allien, Nik Bartsch, The Decemberists, Arcade Fire, anything the Optimo guys do, Bill Evans, Art Brut, Leonard Cohen, The Unicorns. | | Movies | All sorts. Art-house stuff. Altman - I've got a thing about ensemble works. Liked Hidden and Lemmings last year. Greenaway, Pasolini and more mainstream directors like Scorsese and Malick.
| | Television | Boring documentaries. Anything that teaches you stuff. Don't like to watch a lot of TV. Think most of it is shit.
But I do have a bit of a soft spot for 80's mini-series things like Threads, Roots, GBH and to my shame even Shogun. | | Books | The Damned Utd by David Peace is incredible. Probably my favourite novel of past few years.
Big pompous American writers mainly, Pynchon, Roth, Auster, McCarthy, Updike, Dellilo, Ford, Bret Easton Ellis, Joyce Carol Oates.
Do like Margaret Atwood, Rushdie, some Amis (Money, London Fields - thought House of Meetings was great), some Ballard, Will Self and a endless host of other writers. | | Heroes | Tony Benn (for still fighting the fight), Tony Wilson (for factory, granada reports and the hacienda - get well soon Tony), Pedro Almoldovar (for loving women), Patti Smith (for horses), Bill Werbeniuk (for combining a prodigious appetite for alcohol, with sportmanship and a cunning tax dodge) and Stan Lee (for all the comics). |
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Anything but Hackneyed's Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Chorley | | Zodiac Sign: | Aquarius | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Post grad | | Occupation: | Writer |
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About me:
Our next event on September 27th features special guests Tom McCarthy and Russell Celyn Jones and is part of Hackney's Write to Ignite Festival. Matthew De Abaitua will also be reading from his debut novel.
Here's an image of Adelle Stripe, Brutalist poet, reading at our last event.
Anything but Hackneyed is a local writer-reading event that takes place at The Broadway Bookshop on Broadway Market, E9.
We're hoping to publish an anthology of local writing (fiction and non-fiction) in the near future and are
always looking for submissions and new readers.
As well as being an event, Anything but Hackneyed is also a person: me and I write flash fiction, short stories and novels. My work has been published by The Guardian, 3:AM magazine, Dogmatika, Laura Hird Showcase, Scarecrow, Industry of Guilt, and Le Monstre.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Other writers, especially from Hackney area. A good agent.
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