Patrick Christie
@pd_christie
Writer with work in: @TheLondonMag, @LitroMagazine, @NecessaryFic, @mironlinebbk, @Review31 & elsewhere.
For @OxonianReview I've taken a look at recent campus novels and asked why British authors haven't followed their US counterparts in producing some form of 'adjunct lit' that reflects the pressures and hardships of modern academia. oxonianreview.com/articles/the-p…
One waits for the sun to shine in Chicago. If only it would! Then it shines, you wish it wouldn’t. From the inside, disappointed life seems to have sucked at the bricks. That must be why they look so porous in the light, popping with little holes. – Saul Bellow, Nov 15 1966
It's been nothing but doom and gloom during the years I've worked in HE — with everyone labouring under the impression that things used to be better. Did a golden age of HE ever exist? I went looking through post-war campus novels for the answer: stillpointldn.com/criticism/arti…
If you enjoyed any of my 3 novels and would like to eventually read my 4th one — A CACHE OF AMULETS ADVANCE 3 — please like or retweet or leave a comment of love as #4 is about to do the rounds in USA. Mil gracias! 💕
I am very pleased to have a piece in this issue looking at Geoff Dyer's debut novel, 'The Colour of Memory' and how Brixton has changed since 1986
The February / March 2025 issue is OUT NOW! Cover image by Stephen Whatcott, and cartoon by Dan Sperrin. Order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curren…
Featuring: @ZuhriJames on Rachel Cusk and the limits of autofiction. @pd_christie on Brixton and Goeff Dyer’s The Colour of Memory. Tony Roberts on Raymond Aron and post-war France. Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/single…
Jacob Collier wasn't on the bill when I booked for this and he is probably the most obnoxious musician I've ever seen perform.
★★★★☆ Jacob Collier/Britten Sinfonia review — jubilant musical mayhem The irrepressible Collier improvised, riffed, sang and played — egged on by the virtuosic mandolin player Chris Thile |✍️Rebecca Franks thetimes.com/culture/classi…
Sad to hear Frank Auerbach has died. There was good essay about him in the most recent edition of @TheLondonMag thelondonmagazine.org/article/essay-…
Thanks to Erratum Press for giving me the opportunity to review Ross Feld's portrait of the late, great Philip Guston - Guston in Time (@nyrbclassics)
Patrick Christie (@pd_christie) reviews Guston in Time (@nyrbclassics) erratumpress.com/forced-abstrac…
I now feel a bit cheated that Moby Dick doesn't have a chapter on why sperm whale poop is superior to right whale poop theguardian.com/environment/20…
