son and heir #10: many happy returns
The paperback of Henry Henry is coming out this month (the UK one today, the US on the 20th). The novel has been published for about a year. The world in...
son and heir #9: going west
Last week I went to the American southwest for the first time -- flying into Las Vegas, driving for a few hours around Red Rock, then northeast to Utah, to...
son and heir #8: the beginning and the end
My new short story, ‘Honeymoon’, is out now on the Granta site. - ‘Honeymoon’ is a kind of companion to ‘Barbarism’ insofar as it reveals the dynamic between...
son and heir #7: multi-factor authentication
Henry V was born in Monmouth, Wales, maybe in August, probably in September, maybe in 1387, most likely in 1386. We know him imperfectly, through chronicles...
son and heir #6: damage
Many people seem to be coming just now to the awareness that humanity does not follow a linear path of technical or moral progress. The same is true of...
son and heir #5: epiphany
My Richard has only really taken on a life of his own now that I've begun writing about him alive, rather than as a dead person Hal is remembering. It's a...
son and heir #4: 2024
It's 2024 and Henry Henry is coming out this year. In: - grief- thuribles- historically accurate period dramas- arts unions - cooking dinner at home - using...
son and heir #3: dead mother
My newest short story, 'Barbarism', is available to read now on the Granta site. - The Henriad is about fathers dying. Henry Bolingbroke is in exile when...
son and heir #2: victimhood
Aug 3 2023, past midnight. Just got back from seeing A Little Life the stage play starring a British TV actor who went to Ampleforth. In 2015 I read the book...
son and heir #1: white stucco
In the National Gallery there are very large portraits of men in wigs holding maps of the colonies that have provided the wealth they're using to commission...