New publication: Mutants: Selected Essays
Toby Litt, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, will have his first book of non-fiction, Mutants: Selected Essays, published by Seagull Press in April 2016. It includes several lectures first given in Room 101 to the students on the Birkbeck Creative Writing MA.
Toby Litt, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, will have his first book of non-fiction, Mutants: Selected Essays, published by Seagull Press in April 2016. It includes several lectures first given to students on the Birkbeck Creative Writing MA.
Publisher description: Toby Litt is best known for his “hip-lit” fiction, which, in its sharing of characters and themes across numerous stories and novels, has always taken an unusual, hybrid form. In Mutants, he applies his restless creativity to nonfiction. The book brings together twenty-six essays on a range of diverse topics, including writers and writing, and the technological world that informs and underpins it. Each essay is marked by Litt’s distinct voice, heedless of formal conventions and driven by a curiosity and a determination to give even the shortest piece enough conceptual heft to make it come alive. Taken as a whole, these pieces unexpectedly cohere into a manifesto of sorts, for a weirder, wilder, more willful fiction.
Toby Litt teaches on the BA Creative Writing and the MA Creative Writing. He also welcomes Creative Writing PhD applications