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Nick Taussig

British novelist and film producer

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Month: January 2011

Avant-garde, Blog, Human Interest, Non-Fiction, The Paradoxical

The Tabloids Bay for Blood

28th January 2011 epitone 2 mins read

There was something deeply troubling in the recent tabloid coverage around the murder of Joanna Yeates when police called in her landlord. One red top […]

Art, Avant-garde, Blog, The Paradoxical

The Readers

27th January 20113rd March 2020 epitone 2 mins read

My wife, an artist, took me to a performance of The Readers in Hackney the other night, an avant-garde performance art group led by two […]

Blog, Human Interest, The Paradoxical

It’s Us Against Them

21st January 20113rd March 2020 epitone 10 mins read

Fan the Flames, No. 6, Dec 2001 Wednesday 12th September 2001 I’m in my car on my way to work. I won’t forget this day. […]

Human Interest, The Paradoxical

The Limitations of Lying on the Couch

21st January 20113rd March 2020 epitone 15 mins read

Human Givens, Vol. 9, No. 2, Summer 2002 I want to recount my experience of psychoanalysis in the hope that I can determine exactly how […]

Blog, Film, Russia

Nikita Mikhalkov’s “Burnt by the Sun”

21st January 20113rd March 2020 epitone 7 mins read

Slovo, Vol. 9, No.1, 1996 Mikhalkov’s tale of life in the Russian countryside in the mid-1930s is an apparently idyllic one. A man and a […]

Blog, Fiction, Russia, The Distinguished Assassin

“The Distinguished Assassin”, Second Extract

21st January 20113rd March 2020 epitone 5 mins read

29th December ‘52 At Kirovskaya, Natasha stands on the escalator as it descends into the bowels of Moscow. She recalls how just over a week […]

Blog, Don Don, Fiction

“Don Don”, Chapter 2

21st January 20113rd March 2020 epitone 3 mins read

I opened my eyes at three o’clock in the morning as the temple bell tower sounded: I always woke at the same time. I no […]

Blog, Don Don, Fiction

“Don Don”, Chapter 1

21st January 20113rd March 2020 epitone 2 mins read

There was me at my table in Bucci’s, new Italian on Lexington up near the Chrysler Building, been there about a year and I liked […]

Blog, Fiction, Homelessness, Love and Mayhem

“Love and Mayhem”, from Chapter 3

20th January 20113rd March 2020 epitone 3 mins read

The bus he gets on is packed. He scans the bottom deck for an empty seat, then goes upstairs. As he reaches the top, he […]

Africa, Blog, Fiction, Gorilla Guerrilla

“Gorilla Guerrilla”, from Chapter 24

15th January 20113rd March 2020 epitone 2 mins read

The rain tumbles down; it does not relent. The forest is hazy, saturated, obscured by the downpour, and during those brief periods when the rain […]

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