Karl Pilkington discusses the meaning of his moaning with Jonathan Wells
Jonathan Wells
The Telegraph
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
“The men of Bravo are not cold. It’s a chilly and windwhipped Thanksgiving Day with sleet and freezing rain forecast for late afternoon, but Bravo is nicely blazed on Jack and Cokes thanks to the epic crawl of game-day traffic and the limo’s minibar…” Read an extract from Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Ben Fountain
NPR
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
An exhilarating ride; funny, oddly touching, written with garish clarity … And in Billy we’ve found a hero for our times.
Mark Wilson
Independent
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Mariella Frostrup talks to Ben Fountain about his bestselling novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Open Book
BBC
Karl Pilkington on the afterlife
Karl Pilkington on baldness
“There really is no correct way to consume this book. Read it from front to back, from back to front, or simply pick letters at random; whichever one you land on will offer you a snapshot of history in a format that we cannot afford to let die”
Letters Live at Freemasons’ Hall, Covent Garden http://letterslive.com/
The trailer for the Ang Lee adaptation of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, based on the novel by Ben Fountain
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‘Some of the letters will make you laugh, other heartbreaking examples will make you cry’
James Kidd
The Independent
“If a bullet’s going to get you, it’s already been fired”
Kevin Barry’s Beatlebone, triumphant at the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize!
‘As Barry follows John’s strange journey, the boundaries between fact and fiction, author and subject, past and present morph. Dark, trippy and comic, Beatlebone is a heady exploration of creativity and identity’
Francesca Wade
The Telegraph
‘If the novel loses innovation it’s f****d’: Beatlebone wins the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize.
Goldsmiths Prize
gold.ac.uk
Kevin Barry narrates this short video for his Goldsmiths-winning novel Beatlebone.