JohnHolten

Went to Kaffee Burger last night for the first time ever. I got to hear  Berlin resident Julian Gough read. He was even kind enough to offe...

Just found out today that my short on William Day Tunnels of Profit (Bridges of Loss) has won The Symmetry of Flaws competition over on gree...

Unremaindered Remainder: a Case Study in Successful Small Press Publishing Or, How to Publish a Good Novel in a Roundabout Way Because, in s...

Enjoyed my first public reading of some of my poems. Nice crowd in the very nice  Coffee  Karma  cafe. Here are some of the poems I read.   ...

Great fucking news that there are even yet more unpublished books belonging to Bolano yet to be published. Recently the man's been weigh...

Friday 13 March 11:45 pm Cafe Karma Sonntagstrasse 30 (S-Bahn Ostkreuz) I'm reading some poems this Friday in Berlin. More info here . L...

Very fine article over in LRB by an erstwhile editor . The sense of confusion and, at times, angry dismay, at what the recession etc is doin...

So I finished reading House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. I was dissapointed in that it wasn't more scary, I never read scary books...

I've recently stopped writing what it was I had planned as I suddenly realised I was writing boring realist work for others, publishers ...

My friend Andrew Fox has one of his fine stories in last week's Sunday Tribune. Check it out here .

Have three reviews up on Laura Hird's latest site.  On Julia Leigh's Disquiet Chris Killen's deput, The Bird Room And the singul...

I got bored with my old website. It can always be reviewed here , but depending on how successful this new blog-turn goes, it will not be up...