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Nick Taussig

British novelist and film producer

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Category: Non-Fiction

Blog, Homelessness, Human Interest, Non-Fiction, The Paradoxical

Society Today – Why Are They Begging?

3rd July 20113rd March 2020 epitone 5 mins read

Society Today, Vol. 1, No. 2, November/December 2005 This is the question on our lips when we walk past a man or woman huddled in […]

Africa, Blog, Gorilla Guerrilla, Homelessness, Human Interest, Non-Fiction

Roof – Child Soldier

3rd July 20113rd March 2020 epitone 6 mins read

Roof, Shelter’s Magazine, October 2008 Imagine this. You are forced from your bed at gunpoint in the middle of the night, tied up and dragged […]

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, 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 […]

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 […]

Africa, Blog, Featured_home, Gorilla Guerrilla, Non-Fiction

Independent on Sunday – Forced To Murder, Aged 10

7th December 20083rd March 2020 epitone 9 mins read

Independent on Sunday, New Review, 7th December 2008 I first met Ojok Charles in August 2006. I was travelling in Central and East Africa, specifically Uganda, on […]

Blog, Fiction, Non-Fiction, On Writing

Staple – Getting In Print – the need, the sweat, and just a little luck

3rd July 20083rd March 2020 epitone 6 mins read

Staple, No. 69/70, Summer/Autumn 2008 Getting in print is damn hard these days, and you’re always going to need a little luck! If you’re not […]

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