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Submitted by AdministratorUser1 on 18 August, 2021 - 09:44
Rupert Loydell revisits Russell Hoban's first eight novels as reissued in spring 2021 with new Eduardo Paolozzi covers in the Penguin Modern Classics imprint; also touches on his later books.
This is a special SA4QE report created to contain images posted on Twitter for the 2015 event so they show up in the SA4QE gallery. To see these images in context please see this page.
Submitted by Richard Cooper on 6 February, 2015 - 09:10
Once time passed after 4qating, I let a bit more pass, and a bit more, and here we are in May and I'm finally putting a little report together. It's getting colder and darker in this part of the world. The mysterious, exciting time of the year.
And I have to say this year is already on track to be the best of my life. Which means there have been times when Russ' absence has been so painfully intense and frustrating. Yet it is only because there has been so much presence that I can smile even at this.
Submitted by Richard Cooper on 5 May, 2013 - 19:20
1998 interview by John Forsyth covering the recently-published Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer, as well as Russell's writing techniques and tips, recollections of writing The Mouse and His Child whilst working for a New York advertising agency, and giving a tantalising glimpse of what became Angelica's Grotto.
Submitted by Thoughtcat on 13 August, 2012 - 17:00
Extensive Guardian Weekend profile of Russell Hoban by Nicholas Wroe from 2002, examining the author's life from his birth in Pennsylvania in 1925 via his army experiences, early books including The Mouse and His Child, his early novels, and on to Riddley Walker, later novels such as The Bat Tattoo, and the SA4QE event.
Art historian Harold Klein is 72 years old and a "walking catalogue of infirmities". First he loses his "inner voice", that censoring mechanism that keeps us from blurting out the first thing that comes into our head, and then he wanders into a pornographic website, through which he meets Melissa and embarks on a dance of death.