W.B. Gooderham

I’m a freelance writer (published by The Guardian, The Observer, Time Out, Tank Magazine, Wasafiri, Modern Books, and Comma Press) and co-run the Tufnell Park Film Club.

My Other Blog, Three Score & Ten, is currently doing the rounds as (cough) a piece of conceptual art and is on the look out for a publisher.

Below is a selection of my writing (mostly for the Guardian and the Quietus). The complete list of Guardian articles can be accessed via my Guardian profile. And my Quietus profile is here.

 

• Interview with The Book Club Review podcast about Dedicated To… 
• The Strange World of… Van Morrison 
• I Can See You Still: Richard Thompson’s Across a Crowded Room at 40
• The Strange World of … Lou Reed – article for The Quietus on Lou Reed’s solo career
• Hitting it Sideways: Last Exit to Brooklyn at 60 – essay for The Quietus on Last Exit…, The Smiths, The Velvets and Van Morrison.
• ‘Toons’ – short story published by Comma Press
• ‘Other People’s Dreams’ – short story published by Fairlight Books
• Kafka’s Metamorphosis and its Mutations in Translation
• Journeys in Literature: John Cheever’s The Swimmer
• Books to Give You Hope: John Lahr’s Prick Up Your Ears
• A Book to Share: Angela Carter’s Wise Children
• Baddies in Books: Alex from A Clockwork Orange
• Darkness in Literature: Saul Bellow’s Something to Remember Me By
• Winter Reads: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
• Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story by Victor Bockris 
• Once Upon a Time: The Lives of Bob Dylan by Ian Bell
• Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan by Ian Bell
• Top Ten Books Given in Books
• The Death of the Novel Inscription G2 article
• Blindly by Claudio Magris
• Interview with Robert Elms on BBC London about The Secret History of Second Hand Books
• Interview with Paul Auster for Time Out
• The fiction of literary friendship
• Among the grownups: Children in adult fiction
• Do too many authors spoil the book?
• The secret stories of book inscriptions
• Martin Amis’s war against death
• Reading your way out of depression
• Is Holly Golightly the Great Gatsby in drag?
• Growing up with your favourite fictional characters

Miscellaneous – in a past life I wrote and recorded music in the bands Baptiste & Kelman. Also did some Other Stuff. Here it all be (for better or worse).

• Baptiste *
• Kelman **
• Stryker!
• Man o’ Mind 
• Reading & discussing an extract from F.Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night with Read Me Something You Love

* Naturally, some songs are better than others. For the record, I’m fairly pleased with A New Career in a New Town, Icarus, Kissing With Your Eyes Open, A Worthy Grudge is a Beautiful Thing, Tired Bodies and Confessions of a Clumsy Man.

** Ditto: The Happiest Man Alive, These Days, Kicking Cans All The Way Home, Some Things Never Work Out and You’re Still Everything To Me.