Article: New Gwendoline Riley novel "Opposed Positions" features Morrissey

[davidt]

You can view the page at http://www.morrissey-solo.com/conten...ures-Morrissey

[Hermes]

She is a babe.

[CrystalGeezer]

She is a babe.

She is! Smart and sexy. I'm sure Morrissey could be featured in lamer works of fiction.

[Stupot]

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.

[goinghome]

I missed this before. Interesting, must look out for the book.

[Thesmithsmorrissey]

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.

[Thesmithsmorrissey]

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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.

[Thesmithsmorrissey]

Tough crowd

when this place is dead it's fucking DEAD.

[I'll contribute!]

Tough crowd

when this place is dead it's fucking DEAD.

Here is a link to her teef:

http://www.theedinburghreporter.co.u...ine_Riley1.png

xxxx

[Thesmithsmorrissey]

thanks.

She's fire. Got the dracula teef thing going, from the looks of it. Fine by me. Go ahead and bite, sweet thing

[Guernie]

You are a wicked one Thesmithsmorrissey ! Hee hee

[Hermes]

I'm in love.

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandc...endoline-riley

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

never heard of her til this thread, but yeah, read that interview and I would like to read her stuff now

[Worm]

"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...

[Qvist]

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/critic...rbo_books_wood

Wodehouse from hell, or Waugh with a vengeance. But ultimately both more human, vulnerable and life-affirming than either of them.

[Vicarinacoma]

She is! Smart and sexy. I'm sure Morrissey could be featured in lamer works of fiction.

OOH! De profudis!

[Anonymous]

http://prettypettythieves.com/follow...olineriley.htm

Old interview from Helen.

[Qvist]

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.