John Patrick Higgins

www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-... Wow! Here's a lovely interview I did did with @tylergore.bsky.social for the Washington Independent Review of Books, all about my book Spine. He squeezed a lot out. I was a tube of toothpaste between his expert thumb and forefinger.

I have a new website! It's your one-stop-shop for all things Higgins. Read about my books, look at my large, grainy, black and white face, read my thoughts, and the thoughts of the thinking people who think about me.

Step inside, love!

www.johnpatrickhiggins.com

I shall be venting hard.

Spine, is out now. It's been called "the funniest book of the year", but it's also an angry, visceral, and ultimately thankful meditation on mortality. With funny jokes.

It's a companion-piece to my previous book, Teeth. So if you enjoyed that, you'll ADORE this one.

Spine has thrilled the Gnome Appreciation society! Lovely review in which he notes I call Batman a dick, and have the reviewer chuckling so hard over soup-based antics he upsets his neighbour. Funniest book of the year! What? Just THIS year? I think we can go further than that.

In Northern Ireland, Absence Makes the Heart Feel More Deeply » PopMatters Writers like Jan Carson understand that, in the absence of the Troubles, people of Northern Ireland may not know who they are, culturally or artistically, or may struggle to articulate who they are wi...

www.popmatters.com/northern-ire... I'm back in Popmatters, with my book, "Fine", being quoted extensively in an article about Jan Carson. For the record, I LIKE Belfast. Great bunch of lads. It's the protagonist who doesn't understand its unique, bracing charm. So we're clear.

So you get fewer words on here now. But I have so much to say. I mean, I've got nothing RIGHT NOW, but in theory...yeah...

@patsycollins.bsky.social Thrilled my short story, "No Light In The Trees", is featured in Weird Horror number 10, just one of a coterie of curiosities contained therein.

Why not buy a copy? You will never sleep again. FACT.

Never sleep again in a GOOD WAY, obviously.

@undertow.bsky.social

I am thrilled to be able to share Anne Marie Hantho's beautiful cover to Spine, my new book, coming to your bookshelf this summer. A semi-sequel to Teeth, Spine sees me further cataloguing my failing body parts. What's next, you ask.

Probably best not to ask.

You do NOT want to know.

Dave Ross.

Sadly, Alice here does not represent my views.

Scythes Queens

That's how you sex up a dystopian future: a small, badly pointed brick wall front and centre of the action.

In the future, you gotta know where your trowel is.

Shelley Duvall wither iguana, Hasbro. She's adorable.

Detail of a Roman mosaic, 300-400AD. I think that's Romulus and Remus' lovely mum.

@popmatters.bsky.social - this is fabulous stuff!

John Patrick Higgins' 'Fine' Hangs on in Quiet Desperation » PopMatters The lives of middle-aged men are to John Patrick Higgins as the statue of Ozymandias was to Shelley: epic, broken, and tragi-comic monuments to quiet desperation.

www.popmatters.com/john-patrick... Review of "Fine" in Popmatters:
"Lines of action are as invisibly elegant and neatly crafted as any one of the writer’s beautiful sentences. Both gut-bruisingly funny and achingly sad. The line between the tragic and the comic is, of course, a fine one." Wow!

Fine by John Patrick Higgins What Da Cover Says: To hear Paul Reverb tell it, he’s fine. Sure, he’s been caught in a compromising situation by his window cleaner and failed to prevent daylight robbery, and yes, he no longer te…

felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/01/18/f... Delightful review from the ever-discerning @gnomelord.bsky.social I've always liked gnomes, you know.

The sky is still blue, the clouds come and go, yet something is different.

RIP David Lynch.

AUG STONE RECOMMENDS: Steve Aylett, Kevin Maloney, Madeline Cash, John Patrick Higgins Steve Aylett, The Book Lovers (Snowbooks, 2024)   Steve Aylett is back with a new novel that could very well be his best work yet. In The Book Lovers, Aylett’s fireworks are at maximum intensity – daz...

xraylitmag.com/aug-stone-re... Fabulous review of Fine by Aug Stone in @xraylitmag.bsky.social All "wanking and The Smiths"? What am I? 15? Far from it. Far from it.

Nosferatu I didn't hate it.  And I didn't think it was too long, which is unusual, as every film I've seen in the last couple of years has felt far t...

johnpatrickhiggins.blogspot.com/2025/01/nosf... I watched Nosferatu. Opinions formed in my head.

Saw Nosferatu...

She's my number one nun.

Kemp making me look bad in my own dream. Classic Gaz.

You don't get the use of many words on Bluesky, do you? I babble incontinently on every other platform, apparently. But look: two lines, and I've already spaffed half my allotted amount. Expect haikus.

Dreamed I was hired to teach Prince Harry to write songs for his album. Gary Kemp, also hired, instigated a radical splinter group, wearing a tin foil crown and refusing to cooperate. "You took my money," insisted the prince. "It's not your money," said Kemp, a modern Wat Tyler.

It was down. Briefly. Relax.

Today I am mostly going to attempt to build a website. I wrote my first novel using the caps lock for each capital letter because I didn't know about the shift key. That's the level of savvy I'm dealing with.

Still, I'm going to have a go at this. And the air will be blue with my luddite fury.

Proper Charlies Who'd be in a band? Not me. Except the one I'm in, of course.  But you wouldn't want to be in another one. All those men, for a start. The f...

johnpatrickhiggins.blogspot.com/2025/01/prop... Music for the Messes. Fabulous new music from the mighty Charlemagnes.