Man-Eating Typewriter: Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2023

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He believes himself to be in love with Eve, who is an attractive and promiscuous hard drinker and drug user. A lot of the Beats were aiming to transcend poverty or find bliss outside the material stranglehold of modern America. The Goldsmiths Prize was established in 2013 to celebrate the qualities of creative daring associated with the University and to reward fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form.

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In this extraordinary technical feat, Richard Milward plunges us into the dizzying landscape of 1960’s London with the story of Raymond Novak, an anarchist promising to commit the crime of the century, and the publishers hoping to capitalize on his violence. It’s quite a sing-song, sardonic lingo, and so when Novak’s criticising the world around him - a stifling, conservative world he finds unbearable - that world appears even more absurd than it would if he was slagging it off in standard English. With remarkable command over the Polari slang that dances, spins, spits and slashes its way across the page, Milward has created a very rare beast of a book; one that is propulsive, relevant, outrageous, and often alarmingly beautiful.

Longtime collaborators with Richard’s publisher White Rabbit, 1 of 100 have worked with all manner of innovative musicians, illustrators, artists, fashionistas, DJs, misfits and anyone else with a story to tell. I wasn’t writing to impress people and that’s the same now; I want my books to do well but I don’t want fame. A Clockwork Orange was a big early influence but I was also influenced by the hidden layers in Nabokov’s novels. This design is printed onto white or blue denim super soft 100% Organic Cotton as usual,and hand printed in Glasgow.

Sentence by sentence, I want to create a kind of rush in the reader, whether that’s through humour, or something unsettling, or an unusual turn of phrase, or the rhythm of the words. My English teacher read it out to the class but from that point on, kids being kids, other kids would come up to me saying: “Oh, have you written any novels recently?