New Gwendoline Riley novel "Opposed Positions" features Morrissey

An anonymous person writes:

In this Observer interview from last weekend, Gwendoline Riley is described as a die hard Morrissey fan, and lo and behold, about halfway into this new book the heroine goes to a Moz concert!

Gwendoline Riley: 'The buck stops here… I've got bad blood' - The Observer
Novelist Gwendoline Riley talks about her obsessive need to write, and why she'll never have children



UPDATE Aug. 5:

Link with image of Gwendoline in a "Kill Uncle" tour t-shirt posted by Hermes:

Q&A / BOOKS: GWENDOLINE RILEY - Dazed Digital

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And there's more....At the back of this month's Dazed and Confused, a quite entertaining interview and pic of her in a Kill Uncle shirt if I'm not mistaken. In the novel she goes to a Morrissey gig in Indianapolis and climbs on stage. No further interaction.
 
I missed this before. Interesting, must look out for the book.
 
I've read her short story collection; it was decent. I'll check this one out too, if only because there's Morrissey stuff in it

and she's from England, so until there's a picture of her smiling and I can see her teeth, I'm holding out on the "she's a babe" bandwagon.
 
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She has that kinky "fairie-like quality" thing going for her

which means I'd let her do me, bad teeth and all.
 
thanks.

She's fire. Got the dracula teef thing going, from the looks of it. Fine by me. Go ahead and bite, sweet thing
 
"Dazed & Confused: Are you apprehensive about the future of literary fiction in the changing world of book sales?
Gwendoline Riley: I feel confident in saying there is no future for literary fiction! anyone who disagrees with that is some kind of mad-eyed proselytiser, to be avoided at parties."

(a) LOL and (b) sigh...
 
I just bought it (bless you, Kindle), and look forward not just to starting it, but also to have a good excuse to put down Rebecca Goldstein's 36 Arguments for the existence of God, which, considered as a piece of literature rather than a work of ideas, is just drab and dead. It probably wasn't a good choice to follow Edward St. Aubyn's magnificent At Last, which put its shortcomings into painful relief. Now there's a book to recommend.

Good New Yorker review: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/02/27/120227crbo_books_wood

Wodehouse from hell, or Waugh with a vengeance. But ultimately both more human, vulnerable and life-affirming than either of them.
 
Just finished it. It does have a Morrisseyish tinge to it, revolving as it does around a northern writer who just seems hopelessly disconnected from meaningful human relationships and unable on a nearly constitutional level of building some sort of stable life. Drinks rather too much, has a monstrous dad and a difficult mum with an absurd new husband. There's a strong sense of being lost, a tamed sense of anger that finds expression in laconic language and quite a lot of acerbic observation. I didnot take to it strongly - I find myself not caring much about the characters generally, and the main C remains shadowy and elusive. It just doesn't really come together - feels flimsy, somehow. Oh well. T

But the 2 pages or so devoted to Morrissey are wonderful, at least.
 

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