Joe Orton has been pricking up my ears lately. On a recent visit to London, thanks to the randomised wonder of ‘dating apps’ – or online cottaging – I found myself, as you do, visiting someone I didn’t know terribly well but wanted to get to know much better. He happened to live… Read More »Joe Orton’s Wallpaper: ‘The Visa Affair’ by Jake Arnott
My good friend the novelist Jake Arnott has a new book out. It’s always dicey when friends publish. Fortunately though, Jake is a prodigously talented writer and The House of Rumour is rather wonderful. Rather fantastical. Mark Lawson wrote a good review of it here. A conspiracy thriller filled with bewildering connections,… Read More »Schrodinger’s Pussy & Jake Arnott’s ‘The House of Rumour’
My good friend the novelist Jake Arnott presents next Saturday’s instalment of BBC Radio Four’s antidote to grumpiness series ‘Reasons To Be Cheerful’. He looks at the astonishing changes in attitudes towards sexuality and masculinity in the past few decades, arguing they offer men much greater freedom of choice and… Read More »Reasons to Be Cheerful, presented by Jake Arnott