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Toby Litt

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About Me

I'm a writer. The books I've published are Adventures in Capitalism, Beatniks, Corpsing, deadkidsongs, Exhibitionism, Finding Myself, Ghost Story, Hospital and I play the drums in a band called okay. I have my own website at tobylitt.com You're more than welcome to visit.

My Interests

Writing, Music

I'd like to meet:

Only the very best people

Music:

Alasdair Roberts
Animal Collective
The Band
Bob Dylan
Burial
Can
Captain Beefheart
Cocteau Twins
Leonard Cohen
glitch
Joanna Newsom
okay
Velvet Underground

Bach
Mozart
Schubert

Hospital Radio:
Prince - Condition of the Heart
NIN or Johnny Cash - Hurt
Bauhaus - St Vitus' Dance
Siouxsie Sioux - The Last Beat of my Heart
David Sylvian - The Healing Place
Eels - Cancer for the Cure
Eels - Hospital Food
Beastie Boys - License to Ill
Velvet Underground - Lady Godiva's Operation
Matmos - A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure
Van Morrison - The Healing Has Begun
The Beatles - Doctor Robert
Massive Attack - Karmacoma
The Pixies - Broken Face
The Pixies - Bone Machine
The Fall - Mr Pharmacist
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Cutter
Mudhoney - Touch Me, I'm Sick
Turin Brakes - Painkiller
Paul Simon - Hearts and Bones
Snow Patrol - How To Be Dead
Athlete - Wires
Anything by Nurse with Wound or The Cure

Any other suggestions?

Movies:

Institute Benjamenta
Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr Leonard Cohen
Pandora's Box
The Royal Tenenbaums

Hospital cinema:
Coma
ER

Television:

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Books:

JG Ballard, Roland Barthes, Baudelaire, Samuel Beckett, Henri Bergson, Harold Bloom, William Burroughs, Paul Celan, Mark Z. Danielewski, Dante, Gilles Deleuze, Henry James, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, John Keats, Sam Lipsyte, Osip Mandelstam, Ben Marcus, Milton, Poe, Rilke, Sappho, Shakespeare, Ali Smith, Muriel Spark

My Blog

Why I Write

I did an interview for the Guardian's column Why I Write.
Posted by Toby Litt on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:29:00 PST

Cut First Lines

I'm involved in this cut-up story, created by Steve Finbow....
Posted by Toby Litt on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:36:00 PST

Hogarth - ’Here is London, giddy London’

I took part in a symposium on Hogarth last year.Here, if you're at all interested, is the text of my talk....
Posted by Toby Litt on Tue, 27 May 2008 11:59:00 PST

I: David Mitchell

David Mitchell has reviewed I play the drums. Nicely.
Posted by Toby Litt on Tue, 20 May 2008 02:18:00 PST

Hospital Cover: The Continuing Adventures Of...

A friend of mine tells me that the cover makes a brief cameo towards the start of Mike Leigh's new film, Happy-Go-Lucky. The scene is with the main character, and takes place in a bookshop....
Posted by Toby Litt on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:31:00 PST

Slice: Unfiction

Hello,especially if you've been pursuing hares through my website, as a follow-up to the Slice story.I'm impressed by what you've come up with so far.A couple of things. Not Anne Frank, though that's ...
Posted by Toby Litt on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:29:00 PST

H Cover recognition

Good to see the Hospital cover on this list of 'Excellent Book Covers' from Smashing Magazine....
Posted by Toby Litt on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:32:00 PST

You can be in one of my books.

If you’ve ever wanted (for whatever bizarre reason) to appear in one of my books, now is your chance.Be a character.Authors for Autism Research are running the thing.Go on....
Posted by Toby Litt on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:47:00 PST

A new spooky story in the form of two blogs

I am telling a storyhere:http://wetellstories.co.uk/
Posted by Toby Litt on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:24:00 PST

The Audioguide: Prizewinner

A short animated film directed by Christina Seresini has won a Grand Prize at the Castelli Concourse for ’The Audioguide/L’Audioguida’ - a story in Exhibitionism....
Posted by Toby Litt on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:44:00 PST