Journalism
Self-centred
This was commissioned as a Diary Piece for the Daily Telegraph Magazine. Unlike pieces bearing the same name in, say,...
Roswell – a Journey into American Folklore
First published in GQ 1993 “From now on do exactly as I say,” says PsychoSpy. “And act like you know what...
Mudflat Apogee
First published in GQ 19937 a.m. and the machines are still clanking and whirring in the windowless slot halls at the...
Thomas Pynchon – the Man, the Myth & the New Book
July. The wires are humming. Early signs of impending confabulation are starting to trickle through the aether. Browsing Pynchonomanes, or those of an excitability approaching that condition, are alerted to a listing on Amazon.com.
Terence McKenna
This piece was first published in 'The Daily Telegraph' Things are starting to go squirrelly in the Amazon basin....
Lounging for Life – Alfred Merhan & the Boutique Level
Alfred Merhan gets up around eight in the morning, has a wash and a shave then strolls to the nearest bar for a...
Cornelia Parker
A tall, high cheek-boned woman in a headscarf stands on the white cliffs of Dover holding an ornate but tarnished...
David Duchovny
First published in GQ, November 1996 "I've been working with David for six weeks," says Tim Hutton, who plays Raymond,...
Terry Gilliam
This piece was first published in Icon magazine in 1998 "I wanted to keep him away from the film," says Terry Gilliam,...
David Cronenberg & Naked Lunch
commissioned by The Sunday Times - November 1991 At Mosport, a motor racing track in the South Ontario flatlands,...
J.G.Ballard – Radio Interview
transmitted on BBC Radio 4 in 1997 DG: J.G. Ballard writes about the collisions between people and a world transformed...
Ken Campbell
First published in The Independent, 1994 The main square in Bury St Edmund's is packed with citizens. A military band...
Syd Barrett
Syd died on July 11, 2006. This appreciation of his life appeared in 'The Observer' on July 16 On a summer afternoon...