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Lost and found: The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm is a novel yearning for discovery

Often when reading narratives that decide to play with time, jumping back and forth without warning, I wonder if the book would hold up as well if it were rearranged in chronological order.

The dark, beautiful magic of reading Russian master Gaito Gazdanov’s stories for the first time

There’s a tenderness within Gazdanov that seems to recall Carson McCullers or Anne Tyler

THE UNDERGROUND FOREST – Music video for my new ambient drone instrumental track

The plan was to create a sort of haunting, hypnotic drone with reverb soaked violins and piano. Check out the music video of the results here!

Why you should read You Were Never Really Here in one sitting

And when the narrative stops on a dime after an ice-cold 97 pages, you’re left wanting more.

Listen to my new ambient track: Into Thin Air

Written, played and recorded by me on the incredibly responsive Roli Seaboard and Lightpad MIDI controllers into GarageBand. What do you think?

The jury is in for Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Execution of Justice

The case is open and shut. But when the incarcerated murderer hires a disreputable lawyer to investigate the possibility that it was someone else, the case inverts into a claustrophobic entanglement of red tape, sin and checkered pasts.

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Short story lovers must read this beautifully devastating new Akiyuki Nosaka collection

Debussy’s Clair de lune – my extended ambient piano rework MUSIC VIDEO

Book review: Frédéric Dard’s vintage noir The Gravediggers’ Bread is begging to be exhumed

Film review: You Were Never Really Here – a corkscrew descent into the allure of violence