NEWS
FICTION, PASTICHE, NON-FICTION
DREAMS NEVER END - Various, ed Nicholas Royle
(TINDAL STREET PRESS, Nov 2004) Features: "City of Women", "The Shattered Window", "Blueness" by HP Tinker
"An assiduous champion of the short story, Nicholas Royle introduces works by three young English practitioners of contemporary noir. The best is HP Tinker, whose infusions of surrealism and pop-culture references have apparently already earned him comparisons to Thomas Pynchon, though his three stories here reminded me more of Paul Auster's New York Stories. His stock detectives flounder in an incomprehensible universe overloaded with information but short on meaning, and are as baffled as the reader by the improbable suicides and motiveless crimes which they come across. Unusual, arresting, smart and very funny, his stories easily repay Royle's faith in the form, though personally I look forward to him writing a novel." (Independent on Sunday)
"They beat up my inner child..."
All propositions, negotiations, inducements, blackmail notes, cash, abuse, to HP Tinker's swelling organ:
"Hilarious deadpan surrealism..."
(The Times)
"... fizzes with the kind of zany, surreal conjunctions that recall Barthelme and Pynchon in their prime." (The Guardian)
BOOKS
THE EDGIER WATERS - Various, ed A.Stevens
(SNOWBOOKS, June 2006) Features: "The Morrissey Exhibition" by HP Tinker. Also includes pieces by Alistair Gentry, Steve Aylett, Kenji Siratori, Billy Childish, Sander Hicks, Tony White, Travis Jeppesen, Thurston Moore, Daren King, Tony O'Neill, Paul Ewen, Steve Almond, Steven Hall, Ben Myers, Hillary Rapheal, Mark Simpson, Noah Cicero... and others and others and others.
Not Only, But Also...
What The World's Been Waiting For...
