Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't

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Her lastest Fringe show, Eleanor Morton Has Peaked, enjoyed a sell-out run and will be on tour in 2023. At times it also takes Long a while to work out what she's really doing with a story - a character or a situation will only appear in the second half or final third, at which point things will gather momentum and take on meaning and resonance. This may result in small marks to the dustjacket and title page, please also bear in mind that each signature will be a little different from the one we show here.

It sort of coincided with my ADHD diagnosis because I got there and yet I still couldn’t get anything fucking done. From a comic mastermind comes this brilliant collection of comical, refreshing and often brilliantly relatable stories. Comedy doesn’t produce many millionaires, but Long’s still had a pretty successful career by most reckonings.There’s a neat synergy between standup and short story-writing in the way their carefully constructed snippets of life build to a punchline. When my friend David O’Doherty and I first started posting videos on YouTube, he would get comments saying, ‘Love the song David! If you choose the Book + In-Person Audience option, this will include a signed copy of the featured book which you can collect from the venue on the night of the event.

But over sixteen stories I wanted her to break away from the minimalist Carver style, and hoped for more variety of tone.This is the first book I've read by Lang and it seems like it takes some time for the story to unfold. Even though Josie Long has had a 20-odd-year-long career in the arts, she still finds it hard to believe that she has written a book. She is Miranda-July-good, and I hope fans of Nicola Barker, Sheila Heti, Kelly Link, Nicole Flattery and David Sedaris will love this.

I’m beyond excited to be bringing out this book, it has been a dream of mine since I wrote stories as a child," she said. Part of the strategy seems to be to insist that this is not “made up stuff”, but is happening to real people in the real world. There's also Long's occasional glitch where the story explains itself to the reader, the way a radio essay or stand-up routine might make its message explicit - in a couple of the stories here it feels heavy-handed (not least because some of the stories have italicised sections at the end explaining the sources and quotes the ideas come from. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Francis Bickmore, publisher-at-large, bought exclusive world rights including audio, in all languages, from Gordon Wise at Curtis Brown.

For me it has to be from my experience or will relate to it in a whimsical way, whereas with these it can just be like two girls find a thing. In the finish your response is probably down to how you see the left wing – the leftie complaint about men, modern housing, men, the parole service, men, housing, housing for people who aren't men – you get the drift. A stand-up performer since the age of 14, Long has long been known for her golden retriever persona.