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Nick Taussig

British novelist and film producer

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Blog, Homelessness, Human Interest, Love and Mayhem, Non-Fiction, The Paradoxical

Roof – The Broken-Hearted

27th June 20113rd March 2020 epitone 8 mins read

Roof, Shelter’s magazine, September/October 2006 The plight of the homeless first really dawned on me when I was twenty-one and living in America. My friend, […]

Blog, Featured_home, Human Interest, Non-Fiction, On Writing, The Paradoxical

A Descent Into Darkness

29th May 2011 epitone 18 mins read

It was the beginning of 2007 and life ambled along until the darkness struck, creeping up on me like a dense black cloud and then […]

Blog, Human Interest, Non-Fiction, The Paradoxical

I Aspire to Be Downwardly Mobile!

6th May 2011 epitone 2 mins read

William Styron, in his wonderful short story, Shadrach, describes how his young ten-year-old protagonist loved the Dabneys because they were happy to bask in “casual […]

Blog, Human Interest, Russia, The Distinguished Assassin

Putin’s Dark Imperium

16th April 2011 epitone 4 mins read

I’ve had a passion for Russian literature since I was a teenager. Its grand themes of murder and redemption were always going to hold more […]

Blog, Human Interest, Non-Fiction, The Paradoxical

The Equality and Humanity of Communal Showers

8th April 2011 epitone 3 mins read

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks gave his Thought for the Day yesterday on BBC Radio Four. His principal observation was the crucial sanctuary which places of worship […]

Blog, Human Interest, Non-Fiction, The Paradoxical

What Does it Mean to be a Man Today?

8th April 2011 epitone 8 mins read

I’m due to become a father soon, and the following question is becoming increasingly pertinent in my mind: what does it mean to be a […]

Blog, Homelessness, Human Interest, The Paradoxical

Miami, Miami!

25th March 2011 epitone 12 mins read

Miami … what a place! And the people that live here … they are so affluent. This is the impression I get as I sit […]

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. […]

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