What is this?
The Leftovers is published once a week. Expect literary and cultural criticism, chronicles, essays, and writing about writing (no grift), among other things. If you want to get a better idea of what this space is about go and check out the archive, read away — there’s plenty of free stuff published here.
I also run creative reading sessions for premium subscribers (more on that below).
Who are you?
I am the author of several books, including We Are but Nothing (Rough Trade Books), JOLTS (Influx Press), Grey Tropic (Dostoyevsky Wannabe), and Shitstorm (Open Pen). In July 2013 I launched literary journal Minor Literature[s] and edited it until July 2023. My fiction and critical work has been published widely both online and in print, in venues such as The Guardian, Open Democracy, Los Angeles Review of Books, 3:AM Magazine, London Magazine, Gorse, among others, and it’s been translated into French, Italian, Turkish, Norwegian, Arabic, Bosnian and Spanish. In 2021 I won the London Magazine Short Story prize. That’s about it. But Google can tell you more.
Why get a premium sub?
A premium subscription grants you access to weekly pieces, monthly Reading Clinic events, the ability to comment below the line, and to email me directly.
If you enjoy this space consider getting a premium subscription to keep it going — I don’t do this for a living but your money buys me time to write.
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The Reading Clinic
The Reading Clinic embraces creative reading as an essential and often overlooked counterpart to writing.
We meet online the last Friday or Saturday of each month, to analyse and unpack a text, in an informal setting. Ideal for writers, translators and editors, and anyone who wants to read creatively.
Forthcoming meetings
2024
April: Tengo miedo torero, Pedro Lemebel (translated by Katherine Silver as My Tender Matador).
May: Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo (Douglas J. Weatherford, translator).
June: Under the Sign of the Labyrinth, Christina Tudor-Sideri.
August: “The Essay as Form”, Theodor Adorno.
September: Personas en la sala, Norah Lange (translated into English as People in the Room, by Charlotte Whittle).
October: Nothing As We Need It, Daniela Cascella.
November: Distancia de rescate, Samanta Schweblin (translated as Fever Dream, by Megan McDowell).
Contact
Premium subscribers can contact me by replying to the newsletter emails. All other subscribers can contact me telepathically. I’m not on social media — anyone claiming to be me on any platform is a doppelgänger.
