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On the Grey Love publicity tour in
New York, author Jason Shelley met Ben Stiller who took a signed copy of the book. Other famous people who have purchased Shelley's work are Lenny Henry
and Rhea Perlman.
'Grey Love is excellent!'
Fiona Cummins, Ms Showbiz, Daily Mirror
'Grey Love has a harmony'
Nog art booshop, Brick Lane
'Remarkable Beckettesque fiction' Paul Tebbs, Daily Telegraph
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Vishal Shah
Artwork
The Romance
Grey Love
The Romance; an
episode in the life of a young writer is available to purchase online in hardback RRP £8.99
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POET JASON HAS A HOLLYWOOD FAN
Jetsetting south Essex author Jason Shelley has a Hollywood fan after a trip to New York.
Jason, who grew up in Beresford Gardens, Hadleigh, met movie star Ben Stiller in a coffee shop during a book tour.
They discussed Jason's poetry collection, Grey Love, and the actor, best known for comedy films like Meet the Parents, accepted a copy.
Jason, who attended the Deanes School and Westwood Primary, said: "I was with my agent after doing a book signing. We were sitting near a woman we later realised was Monica Lewinsky when Ben came in with his wife.
"My agent asked a waitress to give him a
copy of the book and he came over and had a chat. He seemed quite an amusing guy."
Grey Love was published in 2003, to critical acclaim, after the success of Jason's first poetry anthology, No Looking Back.
Jason is currently photographs as part of an installation in Butterfly Walk, Camberwell, with British artist Sarah Lucas.
The artwork by Vishal Shah, for his latest title, The Romance, an episode in the life a young writer was exhibited as part of the Threads exhibition, in April and May this year, at the Tank Gallery, in Ladywell, curated by Deeqa Ismail.
Please visit http://www.tlon.co.uk/ to see the work. You can also buy the hardback which has all the artwork from the story in it. £8.99 from any good bookshop or buy online
Jason Shelley - New York encounter
Actor Ben Stiller - coffee meeting
Picture: Maxine Clarke
Courtesy of Katherine Legge, Evening Echo, Southend-on-sea
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http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/232485-five-questions-for--david-whiteman
Author David Whiteman's debut novel, A Cure For Solitude (£7.99, Tlön Publishing), tells the story of Czech smuggler Dominik, who takes a loner named Alex under his wing.
Is the novel based on your own experiences?
To the extent that I lived in Prague and met people who lived through communism and revolution. I met an Iraqi guy called Hassan who was in a similar situation to Dominik, in that he was on the run. He told me he was a carpet shampoo salesman but I knew he wasn't.
Why did you choose Prague as your backdrop?
It's one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Western people very much plot their own paths, whereas people from the old communist countries don't really have that luxury, and I was interested in exploring those differences.
Did you have to do a lot of research about smuggling?
I did read some interesting books on smuggling. There's a great one called Snowblind by Robert Sabbag, about drug trafficking.
You've written a screenplay about Ernest Hemingway. Are you fond of his work?
I've got an enormous amount of respect for his writing. I came across this story of how he went about writing his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, about a small group of expats in Paris. Hemingway's story is a fictional account of something that actually happened, but I've written the true story and changed everybody's names back to the real ones.
What's next?
I'm writing about Gavrilo Princip, the man who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand [heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne], told through a fictional character whose name I'm not sure of yet. It'll be set around the early years of World War I.
Jason Shelley reads the first ever public reading of
The Romance; an episode in the life of a young writer
at Tank Gallery April 2010. The five pieces of artwork
were exhibited as part of 'Threads'
